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Re:Alphabet spins out Taara – Internet over lasers by j-krieger on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @06:49AM (#43397855)
> Obviously jamming resistant high bandwidth communication enables some scarry possibilities

They are not obvious to me. Care to explain?

Re:Alphabet spins out Taara – Internet over lasers by LeifCarrotson on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @08:17AM (#43398504)
"People with blue and yellow patches are the enemy. I won't be able to communicate with you after you leave the forward base, but you need to navigate about 1 mile southwest then kill the people you find with a blue and yellow patch for as long as you can."

Then the quadcopter/Atlas/Spot/a Terminator/a tank driven by AI starts rolling across the landscape, while humans flagged as suspicious by Google because we lack sufficient tracking data in our browsers fill out reCaptcha images that say "Select all images that contain [soldiers] in this set."

Nearby, a scared local child distracts themselves from the distant horrors by drawing a picture of the sun in the sky with their crayons.

Some time later, the robot is able to transmit back a few bytes of telemetry to base, which publishes a press release that describes the number of enemies slain.

Re:Alphabet spins out Taara – Internet over lasers by throwpoaster on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @08:46AM (#43398763)
This is an example of the lack of connectivity, not the horror of too much.
Re:Alphabet spins out Taara – Internet over lasers by ahazred8ta on Thursday March 20, 2025 @08:05PM (#43430487)
Obligatory xkcd: click on all the photos that show places you would run for shelter during a robot uprising https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2228:_Machine_Lea...