AI-Powered Super Soldiers Are More Than Just a Pipe Dream

masterspace , 13 days ago

It makes more sense than trying to build Master Chiefs. Robot powered body armour sounds awesome, but in reality it’s a lot more efficient to avoid getting hit then to try and take hits and keep moving, especially if you’re a rich country with an advantage in micropocessing resources (assuming Taiwan doesn’t fall).

What they’re talking about isn’t crazy either, build out a platform that can handle robust military comms, connect it to a modern military information network, and then have local machine learning capabilities to handle local on site applications.

I mean, even just a bunch of soldiers in a line with networked helmets would create a line array of microphones that could theoretically be used to figure out where enemy fire is coming from / how many people are shooting at them, what type of gun is firing at them, how much they have left, etc. If humans today can pick out where a sniper might be shooting them from, Im willing to bet a computer connected to an array of different soldiers’ sensors will be able to do it not too long for now.

NeoNachtwaechter , 13 days ago

his backpack supercomputers for processing with the help of an onboard artificial intelligence engine.

Instead of the “super perforator”, they get the “super hallucinator” now.

finley , 13 days ago

More like a pipe-nightmare

Evil_incarnate , 13 days ago

Might makes right.

AdamBomb , 13 days ago

Sure, let a text generator try tactics

rottingleaf , 13 days ago

Why does that thing from the beginning of Robocop come to mind?

admin , 13 days ago

Because it invokes a strong emotion, and that’s what drives (social) media engagement.

technocrit , 13 days ago

In a world where all research is funded by violent imperialists…

WereCat , 13 days ago

An army of John Backplips stomping trough everything until the enemy trains William Front Flip AI sounds terrifying.