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Posted on 11/30/2010 10:02:31 PM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld
Modern warfare relies increasingly on robotics for intelligence gathering and increasingly for strike capabilities, but the decision-making capacity still rests solely in the hands of human commanders. But British defense company BAE systems is testing a way to turn over battlefield decisions over to robot troops as well.
ALADDIN (Autonomous Learning Agents for Decentralised Data and Information Networks) is BAE’s response to the overload of sensors and data now confronting battlefield commanders who now have UAV observations, soldier-based sensors, satellite data, and reams of other intelligence washing over them in such volumes that, as Air Force Lt. Gen. David A. Deptula puts it, they’ll be “swimming in sensors and drowning in data.” The system allows a network of robot soldiers to quickly collect and exchange information and then to bargain with each other to determine the best course of action and execute it.
The robots are armed to the teeth with algorithms employing a range of models – game theory, probabilistic modeling, optimization techniques – that let them predict outcomes and allocate battlefield resources far more quickly and efficiently than humans trying to process the same amount of data. All that should help troops – both robotic and otherwise – keep stay afloat in the data deluge
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NUTTZ!!!!
I love it. They can operate in any enviornment 24/7. You do not have to worry about feeding them. They obey any command.
Terminators.
They should have named it SKYNET.
spend gazillion dollars on this and hajji will find a way to blow it up somehow.
I am sort of with Sheldon on this one (or maybe Grant).
I want to have a Cyborg army with my mind in control! My only concern is that when I have nightmares the entire army will stand in front of the High School assembly wearing nothing but underwear.
Armed Roombas.
I love this. This is a mad scientist dream. An army that will fight to the bitter end.
“They obey any command”
Including unlawful ones....
>My only concern is that when I have nightmares the entire army will stand in front of the High School assembly wearing nothing but underwear.
And that in turn will cause the demand for psychological counseling to go up....
I made the wrong career choice.
Maybe this will work with Congressmen and Federal Judges.
LOL! Thats what me first thought was!
And those of the hackers who compromise the datalink.
There is no civility in war.
>>I made the wrong career choice<<
Big bucks missed there for sure!
Bull crap! No program is more advanced than the PROGRAMMER.
Dr. Quest and Race would never allow me to do that!
There is a thing called Artificial Intelligence
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