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2022-06-22 Science & Technology

Rise of the killer robots! Watch an AI-powered tank shoot rounds and blow up targets in the first live fire of the unmanned 'Type-X' robotic combat vehicle

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Posted by Skidmark 2022-06-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Keth Laumer's Bolo series was great fiction, but...
It's that problem with AI Pattern Recognition that keeps stumping them. How do you 'teach' and AI to know what is or isn't a valid target -- and what keeps the enemy from subverting the process?

Posted by magpie 2022-06-22 00:34|| 2022-06-22 00:34|| Front Page Top

#2 One method, developed during the Reagan Starwars programs was used to identify missile types by a spectral analysis of their launch exhaust. Laze(r) the plume and assess the fuel composition and combustion cycle revealing friend or foe patterns.

As we have seen from innumerable videos, armor and heavy diesels blow a lot of soot when operating. I have also read about paint composition patterns resonating at the molecule level when fanned by a high frequency strobe.

what keeps the enemy from subverting the process?

Nothing lasts forever.

Posted by Skidmark 2022-06-22 06:54|| 2022-06-22 06:54|| Front Page Top

#3 Skynet smiles

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-06-22 07:36|| 2022-06-22 07:36|| Front Page Top

#4 By now the tin-ass bastard is grinning....

Posted by Mercutio 2022-06-22 08:31|| 2022-06-22 08:31|| Front Page Top

#5 IIRC there was a program to develop an anti-vehicle round for the 120mm mortar back in the 1970s. It would pop a parachute so it had some loiter time and then fire a explosively formed slug downwards at its targets. The idea was that the Warsaw Pact used a common paint so they 'refined' the IR sensor for the chemical compounds in that paint. Supposedly the Soviets said they were going to put additives in the paint and change its spectra (The Enemy always gets a vote!).

Posted by magpie 2022-06-22 09:32|| 2022-06-22 09:32|| Front Page Top

#6 If a foolproof mechanism for discriminating between friendly and enemy vehicles were developed, some fool at the Pentagon would rush out to announce it to the media.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-06-22 09:37|| 2022-06-22 09:37|| Front Page Top

#7 some fool at the Pentagon

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Posted by Skidmark 2022-06-22 15:53|| 2022-06-22 15:53|| Front Page Top

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