The Scientist and the A.I.-Assisted, Remote-Control Killer Robot

The Scientist and the A.I.-Assisted, Remote-Control Killer Robot(nytimes.com)

35 points by luca3v 4 years ago | 2 comments

hodgesrm 4 years ago |

There's a lot of loose talk about AI-driven warfare and how terrible it will make conflict. Much of it is written by people who don't understand how destructive modern weapons are.

This, however, looks like a sea change, especially as AI driven weapons decrease in size. It's easy to picture them being delivered by drone for attacks weeks or months later.

remarkEon 4 years ago | |

>Much of it is written by people who don't understand how destructive modern weapons are.

Absolutely. I don't mean to nitpic this article, because it addresses a larger point, but this quote FTA stood out:

>Hidden beneath tarpaulins and decoy construction material in the truck bed was a 7.62-mm sniper machine gun. [emphasis added]

I don't know what the hell a "sniper machine gun" is (I was in the Army for 5.5 years), but this sentence unfortunately took a lot of away from the article for me.

The way the article is written makes me think the author has a specific way they'd like this story framed, and their unfamiliarity with small arms weapons platforms is sort of giving away the game here. Remotely controlled small arms employed in a stay-behind-operation is the real story here. I don't know of another instance where this has happened.