[Thread] Here& #39;s a video showing how a new computer system currently under development for US strike drones will use facial recognition, among other AI functions, to identify targets. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc1aOFmb3AI">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
2/ Militaries have long fought the perception that drones are artificially intelligent robots with advanced autonomous functions. But every time a new AI feature is added to these weapons, they get closer to being exactly that.
3/ Everything I& #39;ve heard about the camera quality on these kinds of drones suggests that the resolution still isn& #39;t good enough for a human, let alone a computer, to reliably recognize faces from 25,000ft.
As the video would have it, this system appears to far exceed the performance of Project Maven, which is the DoD& #39;s flagship AI program for drone targeting analysis.
Not long ago, Maven was performing at just 50-60%. https://breakingdefense.com/2019/08/joint-ai-chief-start-with-50-solutions-get-better-asap">https://breakingdefense.com/2019/08/j...
6/ Technologies like this targeting system are much closer in the pipeline than the "killer robots" that most people imagine when they think about AI warfare.
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