Absolutely correct. Once the scientists at Los Alamos in 1945 realized what they had created only then did they start warning against its use. It was too late then and it's too late now. Imagine a Boston Dynamics combat robot powered by AI and armed with a 50 cal machine gun. It's probably already on some military drawing board somewhere.
Developers seem to think this can be controlled. Maybe it can but maybe it can't.
Armed robots aren’t that big of a deal. Dumber, shorter ranged, and more expensive than real soldiers. Tanks are more heavily armed ajd armored yet can readily be disabled by as little as one infantryman, as the Russians are being reminded.
Battery technology is the same constraint for sci-fi styled armies as it is our cellphones…pretty weak.
Woz and Musk? Hmm. I was kinda worried about the acceleration of AI. Now that a has-been and a nutcase megalomaniac have chimed in, I say full steam ahead, AI!
Hmmm, the has been & nutcase happened to be billionaire and were not
There were armed robots in World War II, 80 year ago, such as the V2 Rocket which was "programmed" to fly to and land in London. And the Germans also had a small "tank" (a few feet long) with a bomb inside it that drove into the enemy's camp and exploded - I think when a wire to the device was cut at the launch point. If the cutting was done manually, then the tank was a remote control device, not an autonomous device like the V2. But I think it was cut when it ran out of wire, so it really was an autonomous device. The people who launched it were probably running away.
So we've had armed robots for 80 years. And they haven't taken over yet.
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Battery technology is the same constraint for sci-fi styled armies as it is our cellphones…pretty weak.
So we've had armed robots for 80 years. And they haven't taken over yet.