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Who’s ready for… … … manhacks?!
You get a manhack, you get a manhack, everbody gets a manhack!!!
Ever watch that show Man tracker? It’ll be like that but with flying shaped charges
If this is you:
You are a bad person, you are evil. I sincerely hope there is a hell and you go there once you die. Murderer!Well those wedding parties aren’t going to drone bomb themselves!
Screamers is a great movie about autonomous killbots
hmmmmmmmmmm what’s that green box in the corner say? squints
Oh look another one…
Armed is not what you think it means. Its referring to the motors. Typically when you go to take off you have to arm the drone before you can use the motors. You press a button on your radio and then can lift off.
Target locked is 100% what it means though.
Jesus fucking christ, I had to go look cause I thought you were just being funny. Nope, clipped straight from the image itself wtf
I hate modern tech. When I was naiver I would see this project as incredibly cool and fascinating; I still think is very cool from a technical perspective. But knowing where and how it’ll be used, is just sad.
This is why we should be teaching the humanities to engineers from the beginning. We should be questioning what value these things can bring and how said tech can be used to do the opposite. Don’t just focus on the technical achievement, a flex of ego driven technique.
I’m not saying, don’t do something because it might have blow back but you have to weigh up the cost-benefit ratio.
Recently there was a demo of a drone that spins in place so that it looks like a faint smudge rather than, well a drone. Their justification was that it could be used to do wildlife watching without interference with the animals… almost everyone else saw this as a near invisible bomb.
Every day I see something new that makes me realize that there are too many in that field that do not think about these issues until it is too late. That they do not realize or do not care that their work will be leveraged into the next hell on earth until it is too late.
Alas this is nothing new, Wernher von Braun by Tom Lehrer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjDEsGZLbio
So, they hired some naive children to develop this SAD thing? Because otherwise, they might have a conscience to stop this shit.
Yep. Humans are REALLY good at making sci come to fruition
Eagle Eye (film) has an added level.
This will be used in terror attacks.
Isn’t this from Terminator: sarah Connor chronicles?
So the resistance will have to move underground, literally.
I wonder how these things work when the target is still and camouflaged. I’m sure adding infrared would be trivial but infrared can be foiled by a tarp, I’m sure we could figure that out, a tarp with camouflage on one side seems pretty easy
I guess it is like most things. There is always a work around but what is the cost of said work around. Even if you can camouflage yourself from things like this, you still take on additional burden of having to address this.
They’re light weight optic models. You’re right that infrared and other wavelengths are trivial to train on but the compute becomes expensive and the combined battery + chips become very heavy for these drones that also need to carry an explosive payload AND remain nimble to function. Flying through a forest means rapidly adjusting course constantly for branches and whatnot.
We’ve had the technology to do this for over a decade. The reason we haven’t seen these in war yet is because they don’t work especially well and there are cheaper + better options.
I suspect that as SOC performance continues to improve, the power demands and AI complexity will eventually over come this. Yes, your phone can play subway surfers at 8K but that same chip could also end up on the receiving end of a drone.
I mean a Snapdragon X2 can give a lot of image processing performance for about 20watts of power draw. That same work load would have been 200-1000 watts a decade back, and power draw is still being reduced with larger ASIC designs.
Ooh, movie idea: a take on The Most Dangerous Game where some rich dude uses an AI system to hunt humans for sport but the AI, being programmed to hunt something dangerous, determines that the rich dude is now the target because he’s the one setting the whole thing up. Tables are turned. Maybe the rich dude now finds himself in the trenches with the poor folks he’d captured?
Oh now that is a good film idea!
Your comment illustrates the difference between sci-fi and fantasy.
JurrasicThe Most Dangerous Park
In a timeline where the US war machine, among others, continues to function exactly like an infinite money glitch; we get to experience the privilege of watching an ever accelerating boom of brilliant innovations, all with the shared purpose of continuing to drive humanity backwards.
As it has ever been. Radar. GPS. Digital imagery. Friggin microwave ovens. All military-first inventions.
Yeah, people say that a lot. Then again, nobody knows the “what if” to compare it to. Like, how many brillant inventors were slaughtered in the trenches? What could’ve universities researched were they not bombed or shut down? I feel like we would’ve had crazy more cool inventions already ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
War is generally terrible for the advancement of theoretical science (because researchers get drafted & murdered, “pure” research budgets are diverted to the military) but great for the development of pre-existing theoretical science into new technology
The internet
I read an interesting article that said our current scifi dystopia trajectory is more along the lines of Philip K. Dick than Asimov or Huxley. If you haven’t seen screamers you might want to check it out. Basically there’s a war between a megacorporation and a union of scientists, so the scientists invent autonomous drones that kill everything with a heart beat and of course the drones become sentient.
Theodore Kaczynski knew things.
In GPS and RF denied environments too. You know, your typical search and rescue scenario.
In the very mild defense of this application, in a natural disaster situation, communications often are interrupted. Not GPS, though.
The picture they provided literally says “Armed” and “Target LOCKED” in the corners of the screen.
Armed means the arms are ready to give a reassuring hug.
And Target LOCKED means that the drone is securely carrying the gift delivery from Target that it’s about to kindly drop off
Yeah, for lack of a better explaination, GPS is just yelled at you from space everywhere on earth.
That’s a great way to put it. Your personal device probably can’t show a map without network because it doesn’t have that map downloaded, but it does know your coordinates. I doubt that’s a problem S&R has, though.
Hm depends maybe for caves
ahh yes, for those search and rescue scenarios where someone is running away from you in a dense forest in a cave, in case you end up needing to perform rescues on the Terraria planet
Or maybe … Under water!
But for real caves are a very problematic area and having something self driven solves many of them. I am not talking about big caves here but small ones that are liked by cave divers to die in.
You are being rescued, do not resist!
This is a kindness
==Arming Warhead==
Isn’t that top left picture also showing a “Armed” tag right at the top‽
Silly billy, that just means it is armed to rescue you ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° )
This is not a kindness
==Arming Auxiliary Warhead==
No need. It’s already
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