Cool tech, not sure how useful is it really. Like 60 drones at one time need a lot of logistics to pull off, and one operator might be a limiting factor as well unless they are extremely smart drones with a link to some beefy compute that can analyze all the data and give that one person all information needed to make a decision.
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Not that I think drone swarms are particularly far-fetched in the realm of unmanned systems, but haven't we learned by now to not just automatically believe whatever military tech China "announces" on state television?
Since at least 2024, China has been publicly trying to crack down on rampant corruption in its weapons procurement and R+D sectors, a lot of it connected to vaporware fake military tech.
It's crazy how fast this new war tech is moving.
Conflicts around the world are going to move to drones, not just Russian/Ukraine.
Whoever can build millions of these, yearly, and cheaply will have a significant advantage. Will be able to sell them to other conflict zones
An AK-47 is only piratical to 100meters. It was cheap machines guns that rolled back colonial empires like the British, and French, in places like Africa.
I can only wonder what cheap drone tech will do to change world politics?
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Flying 200 drones at the same time is easy, having them do anything useful/effective is hard. Seems more like bluster than anything effective at this point in time, given AI systems aren't really there yet for precise targeting.
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I called something like that years ago. Whether the report is true or exaggerated or not it is only a matter of time before this becomes reality. This is a terrifying weapon. You can overwhelm any defender with this.
But what I really dread is when someone finds a way of affordably making these drones capable of autonomously identify and attack targets. Imagine what releasing a swarm of those in a crowded city center with instruction to "wander around and attack any human you identify" would do.
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A “centaur” is a human being who is assisted by a machine (a human head on a strong and tireless body). A reverse centaur is a machine that uses a human being as its assistant (a frail and vulnerable person being puppeteered by an uncaring, relentless machine).
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His job was to be the “human in the loop” for an AI that wrote the articles, but on a schedule and with a workload that precluded his being able to do a good job. It’s more true to say that his job was to be the AI’s “accountability sink” (in the memorable phrasing of Dan Davies): he was being paid to take the blame for the AI’s mistakes.
He was, in other words, a reverse centaur.
On track for this:
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I’ve been wondering when stuff like this would start to be a thing. Imagine this scaled up, like a carrier that instead of launching planes, launches and coordinates hundreds of thousands of these simultaneously.
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I don't really see this as surprising. Drones have been used in mass coordinated swarms for things like new years light displays for years.
It was only a matter of time that gets used as a weapon system/platform.
A swarm doesn't give you much advantage over a single drone though. There's more targets to shoot down, so perhaps there's a better chance of getting one through drone defenses; but they also lose the stealth factor a single drone brings... Maybe a really wide surveillance view if you combine their camera feeds?
IDK, doesn't really seem all that beneficial.
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Man, this would be amusing to see when they all get jammed at the same time.
The cutting edge of warfare is Ukraine, not China, btw.
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Wow, i wonder what the world most ethical country gonna do with a swarm of suicide drone. Tiananmen Cube?
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Meanwhile, America is like, "let's have autocorrect write our laws."
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I'm noticing the term "intelligent algorithm", which suggests a more traditional programming approach than offloading decision making to a LLM.
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Take a lesson from Star Wars Episode 1
Enemy Swarm inbound.
Took a quick view of their articles. Tomshardware have become very politicized lately..
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