US Navy uses AI to train laser weapons against drones | The US Navy is helping to eliminate the need for a human operator to counter drone swarm attacks.
https://newatlas.com/military/us-navy-uses-ai-train-laser-weapons-against-drones/
US Navy uses AI to train laser weapons against drones | The US Navy is helping to eliminate the need for a human operator to counter drone swarm attacks.
https://newatlas.com/military/us-navy-uses-ai-train-laser-weapons-against-drones/
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“The team trained an AI system using a miniature model of a Reaper drone, 3D printed out of titanium alloy. The image catalogs produced two datasets of 100,000 images that were used to train an AI system so that it could identify the drone, confirm its angle relative to the observer, seek out the weak spot, and fix the beam on that spot.
Human operators still have a chance of succeeding against a single drone, but swarms of the things are another matter. True, a laser can flick from one target to the next in a fraction of a second, but identifying a weak spot and fixing the beam on it is another matter entirely. In a combat situation, a human operator would be quickly overwhelmed. As lasers advance to handle hypersonic missiles, the problem gets even worse.”
Some background music and a smoke machine, and we got ourselves a laser light show, boys! Hooooowee!
Drone swarms run by AI vs defenses run by AI.
Very quickly, the role of human beings who have long turned to the military for work is being phased out.
It’s really interesting/horrifying to see how automation necessarily fills defense roles first due to sheer AI supremacy for speed and acquisition.
Oh, sorry. Our laser identified your airplane as a drone.
Lately I can only think of ONE (or two) professions that has CONTRACTED IN job security from AIs, the jobs are related… And we thought these people were over reacting….
The actors and film creatives …. They did their strike and for the next while have job surety against AI…. Do bankers or engineers or software folks have anything like this ?
Congrats to them, and we kept thinking it wasn’t gonna happen to us….. Fran Dresher proves she’s so much smarter than most…
𝐹𝒾𝓇𝓈𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓎 𝒸𝒶𝓂𝑒 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓈𝑜𝒸𝒾𝒶𝓁𝒾𝓈𝓉𝓈, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝐼 𝒹𝒾𝒹 𝓃𝑜𝓉 𝓈𝓅𝑒𝒶𝓀 𝑜𝓊𝓉—𝒷𝑒𝒸𝒶𝓊𝓈𝑒 𝐼 𝓌𝒶𝓈 𝓃𝑜𝓉 𝒶 𝓈𝑜𝒸𝒾𝒶𝓁𝒾𝓈𝓉.
𝒯𝒽𝑒𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓎 𝒸𝒶𝓂𝑒 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓉𝓇𝒶𝒹𝑒 𝓊𝓃𝒾𝑜𝓃𝒾𝓈𝓉𝓈, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝐼 𝒹𝒾𝒹 𝓃𝑜𝓉 𝓈𝓅𝑒𝒶𝓀 𝑜𝓊𝓉—𝒷𝑒𝒸𝒶𝓊𝓈𝑒 𝐼 𝓌𝒶𝓈 𝓃𝑜𝓉 𝒶 𝓉𝓇𝒶𝒹𝑒 𝓊𝓃𝒾𝑜𝓃𝒾𝓈𝓉.
𝒯𝒽𝑒𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓎 𝒸𝒶𝓂𝑒 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒥𝑒𝓌𝓈, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝐼 𝒹𝒾𝒹 𝓃𝑜𝓉 𝓈𝓅𝑒𝒶𝓀 𝑜𝓊𝓉—𝒷𝑒𝒸𝒶𝓊𝓈𝑒 𝐼 𝓌𝒶𝓈 𝓃𝑜𝓉 𝒶 𝒥𝑒𝓌.
𝒯𝒽𝑒𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓎 𝒸𝒶𝓂𝑒 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝓂𝑒—𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝓌𝒶𝓈 𝓃𝑜 𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝓁𝑒𝒻𝓉 𝓉𝑜 𝓈𝓅𝑒𝒶𝓀 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝓂𝑒.
—𝑀𝒶𝓇𝓉𝒾𝓃 𝒩𝒾𝑒𝓂ö𝓁𝓁𝑒𝓇
I could see drone swarms of 100k . This makes sense but we will need more lasers
Wouldn’t they just need to fix lightweight mirrors around the drone to render lasers useless?