Fictional video makes Terminator look like a Disney film

[simplytheresa]

This seems not far away at all...

https://thenextweb.com/artificial-intelligence/2017/11/14/this-fictional-video-about-ai-powered-weapons-makes-the-terminator-look-like-a-disney-film

[rcjordan]

The future shown in the video doesn't look very far off, which is why it's so incredibly scary. It could be next Tuesday

I'll just drop this here...

http://www.businessinsider.com/pentagon-test-mini-drone-swarm-2017-1

[BoL]

Wonder if a mirror would bugger up their AI.

I was thinking recently the police will probably get in on the drone act. There's been kids in the area causing a few disturbances, mainly in the nearby forest... lighting fires etc. The police are too slow to detect the crimes, so why not fly a drone up.

[littleman]

The video was made to be a warning probably with the goal of international treaty to prevent autonomous weapons.  I think this is a worthy idea, but a bigger problem is that the technology is already at the consumer level.


https://github.com/intel-aero/meta-intel-aero/wiki/04-Autonomous-drone-programming-in-Python
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhkGQvb_R8Y

[Travoli]

I hadn't considered that drones could make nuclear weapons mostly obsolete... wow.

[rcjordan]

In this, the third year of conflict in eastern Ukraine, Aleksandr's drones have become increasingly visible in the combat zone.

http://www.wired.co.uk/article/high-street-uavs-are-being-used-to-fight-the-war-in-ukraine

I can't find it now but approx 18 months ago there was an article about UK army using swarm-tech drones on a practice maneuver. They had the swarm do collective reconnaissance on a village.  Anyway, swarm-tech is pretty mature now. It's been 5⁺ years or so -a lifetime in drone years- since MIT, etc. wow-ed us with a couple of drones playing ping pong.

[rcjordan]

DARPA hopes to swarm drones out of C-130s in 2019 test

https://www.navytimes.com/newsletters/daily-news-roundup/2017/12/18/darpa-hopes-to-swarm-drones-out-of-c-130s-in-2019-test/

[grnidone]

>DARPA hopes to swarm drones out of C-130s in 2019 test

Kinda funny:  my Dad flew C-130s.  Talk about mixing old tech with the new.

[rcjordan]

>C-130

STILL very much the go-to workhorse plane for the Coast Guard. I think the new class of c130s is the 130-J or somesuch. My town is the mother base for them on the east coast. I think they beefed up the already beefy frame and engines.  My Coastie aviation friends tell me that the wing infrastructure on these is incredible to behold.

[Travoli]

The drone wars have begun.

"A swarm of armed drones attacked a Russian military base in Syria"

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/11/swarm-of-armed-diy-drones-attacks-russian-military-base-in-syria.html

[Drastic]

Well that was interesting til I saw the pic of one of the drones, which looks close to a fly by wire RC plane circa 1965.

Definitely looks like the middle's east's version of an IED from the air. Almost makes me wonder if someone barely noticed these.

[Travoli]

It's definitely a strategy with low personal risk and low barriers to entry.

[rcjordan]

> IED from the air

US Army General: Small Drones Biggest Threat Since IEDs
https://www.thedefensepost.com/2021/02/10/small-drones-threat-us-general/

[rcjordan]

Army To Test Its Biggest Interactive Drone Swarm Ever Over Utah
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/army-to-test-its-biggest-interactive-drone-swarm-ever-over-utah

[littleman]

Looking at the footage in Ukraine it is so obvious that AI driven drones are going to be quite a force in the near future.