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kleinbl00  ·  2561 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Slaughterbots

I enjoyed the original much more.

No, wait. That was a remake. Here's what I was looking for:

No, wait. That was a remake, too. Here's what I meant:

There are very real concerns related to autonomous warfare, and there are very real concerns related to microUAVs. Just ask ISIS:

Or maybe you should ask about ISIS.

Look - 3g of explosive in an autonomous package with avionics and standoff dwell is always going to cost more than an AK-47. Always. So yeah - ZOMG someday terrorists are going to have sophisticated weapons beyond our ability to fathom but right f'n now we've got people jumping into trucks and driving them into crowds.

Know why that whole "drone" thing went by the wayside? 'cuz the manufacturers geofenced the battlefield. It's the same reason my buddy's company can't get any aerial footage of their shit - their workshop is next to Burbank Airport and anybody's drone big enough to take pictures pops up and goes "oh, shit I'm not allowed to fly here." Which means anybody evolved enough to have a non-geofenced drone also has a refined understanding of the felonies they incur should they try.

A problem you don't understand has solutions you don't understand and if your primary source of information is made-up scary videos, you never will.