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 |  Subject: A.I. To Birth “Centaur War-Fighters” (Half-Man-Half-Horse) Machine Apocalypse  Sun Nov 06, 2016 6:34 am | |
| A.I. To Birth “Centaur War-Fighters” (Half-Man-Half-Horse) Machine Apocalypse
November 6, 2016 by SkyWatch Editor
 Last week, The New York Times carried a story about a US department of defence project to put artificial intelligence into military drones, allowing them to autonomously distinguish between hostile and harmless human targets. Early trials indicate that these machines are already capable of accurately distinguishing between a photographer crouching with a camera raised to eye level and a sniper aiming a Kalashnikov. It is being called centaur war-fighting—from the half-man-half-horse creature of Greek mythology. Even though the applications are relatively benign right now, these are the initial signs of the development of a wide range of autonomous weapons ostensibly designed to enhance the problem-solving abilities of human soldiers and improve their efficacy. But, despite the well-meaning assurances about how safe these intelligent weapons are, there is no avoiding the sinister implications of machines that are programmed to decide who to kill. (READ MORE) |
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