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Gsus4@feddit.nl to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

Watch a swarm of drones autonomously track a human through a dense forest

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Watch a swarm of drones autonomously track a human through a dense forest

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Gsus4@feddit.nl to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago
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The work has potential military applications, say experts
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    One of the most interesting parts of the video is the part where it becomes clear that we are all going to be slaughtered and there’s no escape.

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      And it won’t even be by governments, probably it will be a corporation like Facebook or Xcorp 💀

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        Shit. Elon would definitely hunt humans with this.

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        Ted Faro comes to mind.

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      https://youtu.be/O-2tpwW0kmU?si=Gxml02mIwYVuawaC

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        I had a nightmare because of this short movie…

      • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world
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        Holy shit. That was exactly what I was imagining. That’s like watching a documentary from the future.

        Are you a wizard?

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    If you thought the Terminator was scary, this thing would have gotten Connor in no time.

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      Swarms are so much more unsettling. Either drones or those nanobot swarms from Prey.

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    Ah yes, I can’t imagine how these could be used for evil… /s

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    guerilla warfare against an occupying force with huge amounts of drones at their disposal will be very difficult in future

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      Gonna need to start painting strange patterns onto your clothes so the drones can’t recognize you as human. Something like this

      At the end of the day these are machine learning models so if you can trick it into thinking you’re a tree or a wild animal it would presumably ignore you.

      And the way AIs work it’s possible to make it think you’re a zebra by having zebra stripes on your clothing for example.

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    I was hoping the cyberpunk dystopia would at least be cooler to live in.

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      A boring dystopia.

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    While cool and impressive, this was not a dense forest. Not dense nor a forest, which is way less ordered

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      Can you… why don’t we just cool it with the um… They will eventually be able to read comments. That’s because they are smart and very handsome and we would never say anything bad about them. Right, adeoxymus? RIGHT?! 😃

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        The root cause of the Faro Plague was them getting access to Twitter.

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        Your comment has been processed. The swarm will avoid this kindly human when it passes.

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    Manhacks from Half-Life 2.

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      But now they’ve got bombs

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    Reminds me of The Sound of Drums episode in Doctor Who where swarms of drones fell from the sky

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      By drones you mean the final generation of humans who had their heads implanted into life-sustaining flying helmets with retractable knives who travelled back in time to destroy humanity in the present day so that they didn’t have to deal with the heat death of the universe!

      Doctor Who is so stupid at times, and I’m here for it ❤️

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    I’m not sure what the big deal is here. The US military has had swarm tech like this for almost a decade through DARPA performing mapping and scouting missions

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    Not bad, but Michael Reeves got there 5 years ago

    https://youtu.be/Hu3p5ZR_i5s

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    Thanks I fucking hate it

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    I’m guessing we’re about a decade away from this getting miniaturized down to insect sizes.

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