Visited MileHiCon last weekend where I saw the Critter Crunch, a contest of fighting robots. You remember the TV shows about that a few years back? They're gone, but the art goes on.
By now I've seen at least 3 levels of fully autonomous fighting 'bots entered, with each generation getting a bit better than the one before. Terminator 1.0 is long obsolete, and the current crop are at Terminator 1.5. Sure they have a long way to go yet, but remember that technological progress is frequently exponential. The military's current crop of drones are not so much autonomous as they are teleoperated from a base in Nevada.
How long before the deployment of the Bolo Mk 1?
and workshop. It's a fine workshop. Me and my assistant, Mr. Scratch.
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2 comments:
I dunno, but I loved the Bolo books. Something about a big damn tank is just "cool"
One company I worked for had a teleoperated M1 Abrams. The autonomy software is in development.
Won't be long now.
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