2003
Posted on 01/27/2023 12:21:53 PM PST by RomanSoldier19
Well, look at the “Terminator” or “Matrix” movies.
I don’t think decepticons would take so well to that. Just ask the autobots.
Lonesome in Massachussets wrote: “Patriot, as deployed in the Gulf War I, had certain modes where it would automatically engage, ,,”
HAWK had automatic modes as well.
BTW, what about Fire and Forget missiles with lock-on after launch?
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A lead slug is fire and forget. I don’t know if HAWK ever autonomously engaged and killed a target. Once a Patriot has been launched there is no way to recall it. It does “track via missile”, the missile’s receiver can receive echos from the ground radar illuminations, but it also has its own transmitter, and can probably reacquire without ground radar. The HAWK used to be a beam rider (that may have changed) and required ground illumination to home on the target.
ya... and soon there after the enemy has all the tech it needs by reverse engineering the passive robot that followed rule no 1...
2003
FWIW, Asimov died in 1992.
I had a conversation with some guys from Talon almost 20 years ago and way back then they said Big Army already had given them a contract to make their tracked EOD robot (below) autonomous and mount an M-60 machinegun on it.
What book are you referring to? I don't remember a book like that?
For that matter prominently linked in his "Robots and Empire" novels was the Galactic Capital Planet, Trantor, that was literally one city that encased the whole planet, extended miles deep and had a population of 20 billion. That didn't make the case for environmentalism and the destructive power of overpopulation.
The books apparently did in a sense let robots "take control" to a very small degree but from afar. They never let humans know that they had been influenced and upheld the Zeroth Law.
“A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.”The Robots determined that letting humans know they had been influenced could cause harm.
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