Who's ready for... ... ... manhacks?!
You get a manhack, you get a manhack, everbody gets a manhack!!!
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You are a bad person, you are evil. I sincerely hope there is a hell and you go there once you die. Murderer!
Well those wedding parties aren't going to drone bomb themselves!
Eagle Eye (film) has an added level.
I hate modern tech. When I was naiver I would see this project as incredibly cool and fascinating; I still think is very cool from a technical perspective. But knowing where and how it'll be used, is just sad.
This is why we should be teaching the humanities to engineers from the beginning. We should be questioning what value these things can bring and how said tech can be used to do the opposite. Don't just focus on the technical achievement, a flex of ego driven technique.
I'm not saying, don't do something because it might have blow back but you have to weigh up the cost-benefit ratio.
Recently there was a demo of a drone that spins in place so that it looks like a faint smudge rather than, well a drone. Their justification was that it could be used to do wildlife watching without interference with the animals... almost everyone else saw this as a near invisible bomb.
Every day I see something new that makes me realize that there are too many in that field that do not think about these issues until it is too late. That they do not realize or do not care that their work will be leveraged into the next hell on earth until it is too late.
Alas this is nothing new, Wernher von Braun by Tom Lehrer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjDEsGZLbio
So, they hired some naive children to develop this SAD thing? Because otherwise, they might have a conscience to stop this shit.
This will be used in terror attacks.
So the resistance will have to move underground, literally.
I wonder how these things work when the target is still and camouflaged. I’m sure adding infrared would be trivial but infrared can be foiled by a tarp, I’m sure we could figure that out, a tarp with camouflage on one side seems pretty easy
I guess it is like most things. There is always a work around but what is the cost of said work around. Even if you can camouflage yourself from things like this, you still take on additional burden of having to address this.
They're light weight optic models. You're right that infrared and other wavelengths are trivial to train on but the compute becomes expensive and the combined battery + chips become very heavy for these drones that also need to carry an explosive payload AND remain nimble to function. Flying through a forest means rapidly adjusting course constantly for branches and whatnot.
We've had the technology to do this for over a decade. The reason we haven't seen these in war yet is because they don't work especially well and there are cheaper + better options.
I suspect that as SOC performance continues to improve, the power demands and AI complexity will eventually over come this. Yes, your phone can play subway surfers at 8K but that same chip could also end up on the receiving end of a drone.
I mean a Snapdragon X2 can give a lot of image processing performance for about 20watts of power draw. That same work load would have been 200-1000 watts a decade back, and power draw is still being reduced with larger ASIC designs.
Ooh, movie idea: a take on The Most Dangerous Game where some rich dude uses an AI system to hunt humans for sport but the AI, being programmed to hunt something dangerous, determines that the rich dude is now the target because he’s the one setting the whole thing up. Tables are turned. Maybe the rich dude now finds himself in the trenches with the poor folks he’d captured?
Oh now that is a good film idea!
Your comment illustrates the difference between sci-fi and fantasy.
~~Jurrasic~~The Most Dangerous Park
In a timeline where the US war machine, among others, continues to function exactly like an infinite money glitch; we get to experience the privilege of watching an ever accelerating boom of brilliant innovations, all with the shared purpose of continuing to drive humanity backwards.
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Theodore Kaczynski knew things.
In GPS and RF denied environments too. You know, your typical search and rescue scenario.
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