The work has potential military applications, say experts
  • Underuse3862@artemis.camp
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    vor 1 Jahr

    In the future, write the scientists in a paper published in the journal Science Robotics, drone swarms like this could be used for disaster relief and ecological surveys.

    That’s an optimistic way of looking at it.

  • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    vor 1 Jahr

    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.

  • maporita@unilem.orgEnglish
    41·
    vor 1 Jahr

    “In the future, write the scientists in a paper published in the journal Science Robotics, drone swarms like this could be used for disaster relief and ecological surveys.”.

    Yeah sure, tell me another one

    • Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      vor 1 Jahr

      It’s a typo, they forgot the commas. They meant to say “drone swarms like this could be used for disaster, relief, and ecological surveys.”

    • Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      vor 1 Jahr

      This could easily be used to find lost autistic kids in the woods… if it weren’t going to be out if the budget of those search and rescue teams.

  • jcit878@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    vor 1 Jahr

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

    • kava@lemmy.worldEnglish
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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.

      • Quokka@quokk.auEnglish
        91·
        vor 1 Jahr

        Until they start packing thermal sensors or lidar and train it recognise those inputs as well.

        • kava@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          vor 1 Jahr

          Yeah presumably in a military setting it would have these things. But there are ways to mess with infrared and lidar.

          For example by using lasers (lidar is essentially just laser radar) pointed at the lidar sensor, you can mess with the sensors see here

          and for example using a space blanket blocks infrared.

          i think this is going to become sort of like cops and robbers. one side comes up with something and the other comes up with a counter and it keeps advancing forward. an eternal arms race

          for whatever system exists, there is a way to break it. guerilla warfare will still be possible, although it will have to start using advanced technologies to beat the advanced technologies

          • Harrison [He/Him]@ttrpg.networkEnglish
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            vor 1 Jahr

            The more sophisticated the system, the more sophisticated your method must be to break it. Eventually the means to break it will grow out of the reach of guerilla movements

            • kava@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              vor 1 Jahr

              i’m not sure. maybe you’re right but there are a lot of dedicated hackers out there who do some amazing things and bypass very complex security systems.

              the person creating a system needs to be correct 100% of the time - the person trying to break it just needs to be correct once. there’s an infinite multitude of things that can go wrong with something and any one of those is an opening to somebody perceptive enough.

              and remember advance of technology goes both ways. military gets access to advanced AI, so do their enemies. it’s a game of cat and mouse we’ve been playing for a long time

        • chillhelm@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          vor 1 Jahr

          Also: Hello Officer. No I wear these zebra stripes on my clothing and the googly eyes on the back of my hat for religious reasons, not to confuse your drone swarm. What do you mean I’m under arrest?

          • kava@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            vor 1 Jahr

            we are talking about guerilla warfare so I imagine something like a group of rebels hiding in a cave on the outskirts of a town or city and using these AI camouflages to travel through the forest without getting spotted by patrolling drones

            obviously if we advance to such a robust surveillance state the act of using this type of camouflage will become illegal very quickly and you couldn’t just walk around the city in open with it

  • adeoxymus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    141·
    vor 1 Jahr

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

    • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.worldEnglish
      61·
      vor 1 Jahr

      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?! 😃

  • Markimus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    vor 1 Jahr

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

    • IndiBrony@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      vor 1 Jahr

      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 ❤️

  • Twashe@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    vor 1 Jahr

    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

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
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    vor 1 Jahr

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Scientists from China’s Zhejiang University have unveiled a drone swarm capable of navigating through a dense bamboo forest without human guidance.

    In the future, write the scientists in a paper published in the journal Science Robotics, drone swarms like this could be used for disaster relief and ecological surveys.

    Elke Schwarz, a senior lecturer at Queen Mary University of London whose specialisms include the use of drones in combat, says this research has clear military potential.

    “As is the ability to ‘follow a human’ — here I can see how this converges with projects that seek to develop lethal drone capabilities that minimize risk to on-the-ground soldiers in urban environments.”

    A recent video showed Ukrainian troops using what appears to be a DJI Phantom 3 drone (price-tag: $500) to drop a grenade through the sunroof of a car supposedly driven by Russian soldiers.

    No single human can simultaneously control a swarm of 10 drones, but if this task can be offloaded to algorithms then military planners are more likely to embrace the use of this sort of autonomous system in war.

    The original article contains 766 words, the summary contains 181 words. Saved 76%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

    • Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      vor 1 Jahr

      If they were armed with poison laced Sharp toothpicks. It wouldn’t be less lethal than a laser guided mini missile or bullet armed one, but will be less expensive to arm and re-arm.

  • Joxnir@kbin.social
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    vor 1 Jahr

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