Re:How the U.S. military thinks about AI [audio]
by bumby on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @04:42PM
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>I'm pretty skeptical the U.S. military is concerned about wasted ammunition. They waste so much on training and preparation that anything wasted in combat is minimal.
They may not care about the ammunition itself so much but they care about budget and combat effectiveness. It's not uncommon to have training be missed due to ammunition budget shortfalls and a robot without ammunition isn't terribly effective.
Re:How the U.S. military thinks about AI [audio]
by mcv on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @05:46AM
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There have also been instances during the war in Iraq where human soldiers clearly had no problem shooting civilians.
It's not something that's unique to autonomous systems, though I suppose it might terrify some people a bit more than when it's humans doing it.
I'm pretty skeptical the U.S. military is concerned about wasted ammunition. They waste so much on training and preparation that anything wasted in combat is minimal.
> I'm pretty sure the first side to allow fully autonomous weapons will do so before the technology is ready
It doesn't have to be autonomous to be deployed before it's ready. Iran managed to should down a civil aircraft based on human error. The U.S. has done the same decades earlier. Clearly there were either technology or human process problems, I suspect that autonomous military robots will follow this trend.