AI-Powered Super Soldiers Are More Than Just a Pipe Dream (www.wired.com)
from jeffw@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 2024 00:39
https://lemmy.world/post/17367479

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finley@lemm.ee on 09 Jul 2024 00:45 next collapse

More like a pipe-nightmare

Evil_incarnate@lemm.ee on 09 Jul 2024 05:36 collapse

Might makes right.

masterspace@lemmy.ca on 09 Jul 2024 02:48 next collapse

It makes more sense than trying to build Master Chiefs. Robot powered body armour sounds awesome, but in reality it’s a lot more efficient to avoid getting hit then to try and take hits and keep moving, especially if you’re a rich country with an advantage in micropocessing resources (assuming Taiwan doesn’t fall).

What they’re talking about isn’t crazy either, build out a platform that can handle robust military comms, connect it to a modern military information network, and then have local machine learning capabilities to handle local on site applications.

I mean, even just a bunch of soldiers in a line with networked helmets would create a line array of microphones that could theoretically be used to figure out where enemy fire is coming from / how many people are shooting at them, what type of gun is firing at them, how much they have left, etc. If humans today can pick out where a sniper might be shooting them from, Im willing to bet a computer connected to an array of different soldiers’ sensors will be able to do it not too long for now.

rottingleaf@lemmy.zip on 09 Jul 2024 05:44 next collapse

Why does that thing from the beginning of Robocop come to mind?

NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 2024 05:59 next collapse

his backpack supercomputers for processing with the help of an onboard artificial intelligence engine.

Instead of the “super perforator”, they get the “super hallucinator” now.

WereCat@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 2024 12:20 next collapse

An army of John Backplips stomping trough everything until the enemy trains William Front Flip AI sounds terrifying.

AdamBomb@lemmy.sdf.org on 09 Jul 2024 13:23 next collapse

Sure, let a text generator try tactics

technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 09 Jul 2024 15:08 collapse

In a world where all research is funded by violent imperialists…