Re:The Army tried to develop a missile guided by pigeons
by Kaibeezy on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @04:21AM
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Autonomous (Annalee Newitz, 2017) has a military robot character that uses part of a human brain for functions like face and emotion recognition. As a technical device it’s a smart use of capabilities; as a fictional device it’s a bit facile but not overwrought.
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Re:The Army tried to develop a missile guided by pigeons
by lordelph on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @04:39AM
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I'm sure I've read a much older short story, possibly by Frank Herbert, where in the future computers do all the calculations so humans have forgotten how to do basic arithmetic. It is rediscovered, only now it's much cheaper to put a human in a missile to perform guidance calculations than using an expensive computer! The HN hive mind will probably remember this better...