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To: Ophiucus
Lynch's unit got lost - what happens if a critical supply unit or weapons system gets lost while under robot control

No one dies, or worse. People and reasoning are needed in war. But not for everything.

No robot or computer today or in the next ten years can do that.

DARPA could use your ESP.

27 posted on 03/14/2004 12:56:27 AM PST by PRND21
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To: PRND21
DARPA could use your ESP.

Right. You really think with current technology that a self-guided, self controlled mobile weapons system capable of reacting to changing tactical and environmental situations with a judgement capacity to evaluate methods to attain programmed goal sets, to choose between conflicting battlefield data, to react to new situations which make the mission goals unattainable with current programming?

Come on. We have mobile probes on Mars that are having difficulties going 20 meters with rocks in the way under constant, non-hostile conditions and they require human decision making and updates to programming the entire time.

31 posted on 03/14/2004 1:21:14 AM PST by Ophiucus
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