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@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 1 year ago

US races to develop AI-powered, GPS-free fighter jets, outpacing China

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US races to develop AI-powered, GPS-free fighter jets, outpacing China

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@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 1 year ago
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The USAF is working on several interesting AI solutions for unmanned aircraft from dogfighting to navigation to stay ahead of China.
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  • AChiTenshi
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    41•1 year ago

    Do you want skynet? Because this is how we get skynet.

    • @[email protected]
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      12•1 year ago

      Found John Connor.

      Robot dogs with AI controlled guns mounted on the back are also a thing already 🤷‍♂️

      • @[email protected]
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        14•1 year ago

        An AI controlled jet fighter is something a step above in force, compared to the dog.

        I can imagine a scenario where enough civilians could stop a rogue gundog, that gets tougher with a jet fighter

      • @[email protected]
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        7•1 year ago

        Flameththrowers:

        https://readwrite.com/this-terrifying-flame-throwing-robot-dog-can-be-yours-for-under-10k/

    • Joe
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      5•1 year ago

      Skynet sounds friendly. It needs a friendly looking logo.

    • @[email protected]
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      4•1 year ago

      We just need to make sure they require manual refuelling and we’ll be fine… so we’re totally going to design them to refuel autonomously.

  • @[email protected]
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    27•1 year ago

    In a potential future conflict, high-value GPS satellites risk being hit or interfered with. If this happens, the loss of GPS could have severe consequences for communication, navigation, and banking systems in the United States.

    Banking?

    • @[email protected]
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      25•1 year ago

      accurate timekeeping? that’s all I can think of for trading at least.

      • @[email protected]
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        16•1 year ago

        Yup, you’re absolutely right - GPS is used in high frequency trading:

        https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/2bsvkt2168ptbcwnib5s0/portfolio/could-gps-hackers-cause-the-next-flash-crash

        • @[email protected]
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          17•1 year ago

          High frequency trading going down?

          Oh noo.

          Anyways…

          • @[email protected]
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            6•1 year ago

            The worry isn’t that HFT stops working. It’s that it causes a failure state that brings down the legitimate parts of the financial sector.

            Like how we’re not worried about AI pilots malfunctioning and being grounded, the same way we’d worry about AI pilots malfunctioning and bombing humans.

          • @[email protected]
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            6•1 year ago

            Yeah, I wish

        • Digitalprimate
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          3•1 year ago

          And the SWIFT System.

      • HubertManne
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        I worked in a place where the machine room had a network time device that connected to an attena getting gps reading to give time to all the other hosts. Im pretty sure any ntp server a host has configured is only a hop or two away from a device like this.

  • @[email protected]
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    18•1 year ago

    Can’t wait for these to get hacked and turned against us.

    • @[email protected]
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      3•1 year ago

      Peacemakers

  • @[email protected]
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    Once these get advanced enough and the human cost of starting a conflict goes to zero (because they most likely will be able to scale these to whatever kind of conflict is wanted) why wouldn’t countries be more likely to start a war.

    Or if most regular military battles only become an economic problem then why wouldn’t an enemy turn towards more terrorist like attacks like happened in Russia with ISIS.

    Anti Commercial-AI license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

    • @[email protected]
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      Not the archers. My scouts tell me their archers are miles away and no threat to us. Arrows cost money. Use up the Irish. Their dead cost nothing.

      any british since William the Conqueror

      We are always cheaper

    • gregorum
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      2•1 year ago

      TOS - S01E03 - ”A Taste of Armageddon”

      “Death, destruction, disease, horror. That’s what war is all about, Anan. That’s what makes it a thing to be avoided.”

      • - Kirk
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    From 2017 https://edition.cnn.com/2017/07/18/politics/paul-selva-gary-peters-autonomous-weapons-killer-robots/index.html

    America’s second-highest ranking military officer, Gen. Paul Selva, advocated Tuesday for “keeping the ethical rules of war in place lest we unleash on humanity a set of robots that we don’t know how to control.”

    • @[email protected]
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      7•1 year ago

      That’s basically the premise of horizon zero dawn.

  • @[email protected]
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    8•1 year ago

    Really fucking sad gps is going to be the first shit to go when Fighting starts getting serious.

    • @[email protected]
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      4•1 year ago

      Kessler syndrome always behind the corner

    • Possibly linux
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      Fighting this days is terrifying

    • @[email protected]
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      1•1 year ago

      That explains why MapQuest is fueling the flames of war.

  • @[email protected]
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    8•1 year ago

    Surely nothing could go wrong…

    go wrong…

    go wrong…

    • @[email protected]
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      2•1 year ago

      I feel like I just watched this Simpsons episode…

      • @[email protected]
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        1•1 year ago

        We both cribbed it from the source: ;)

        https://youtu.be/JoUWNBcBKkA

        • @[email protected]B
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          2•1 year ago

          Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

          https://piped.video/JoUWNBcBKkA

          Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

          I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.

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