Happy Face 29 Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 Holy Shit! http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-19205365 No mention of them being used to kill people on this report, which has been the primary use so far, but scary enough as it is. That one that couldn't be kicked over and that swarm at the end are like Cyberdyne systems. We're living in the future here like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Carr's Gloves 3181 Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 The swarming ones reminded me of the Michael Crichton book Prey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest CabayeAye Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 Holy Shit! http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-19205365 No mention of them being used to kill people on this report, which has been the primary use so far, but scary enough as it is. That one that couldn't be kicked over and that swarm at the end are like Cyberdyne systems. We're living in the future here like. Don't worry, AI isn't anywhere near advanced enough to be a threat. Yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 8947 Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 It's pretty bad that my first thought wasn't "that's disquieting", but "holy shit that's cool". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonGoodwyn 1 Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2012/03/autonomous-drones-can-fly-in-formation-build-things-and-eventually-turn-the-world-into-goo/ Pretty interesting video about flying drones from a few months ago - the stuff they can do is mental. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 8947 Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 Now that's the stuff i need to be working on Ant.Q I would happily help finance a Toontastic Defence Drone Swarm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Life 70 Posted August 11, 2012 Share Posted August 11, 2012 (edited) Holy Shit! http://www.bbc.com/n...nology-19205365 No mention of them being used to kill people on this report, which has been the primary use so far, but scary enough as it is. That one that couldn't be kicked over and that swarm at the end are like Cyberdyne systems. We're living in the future here like. No conversation on the planet is secure. Edited August 11, 2012 by Park Life Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted August 11, 2012 Author Share Posted August 11, 2012 http://www.gizmodo.c...world-into-goo/ Pretty interesting video about flying drones from a few months ago - the stuff they can do is mental. Wines. Best bit is When they play the James Bond theme. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcPWEMwGJVQ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 13804 Posted August 11, 2012 Share Posted August 11, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted February 25, 2013 Author Share Posted February 25, 2013 Call me a pessimist, but every now and then I see something and think: "Yes, well, there's something that's inexorably destined to kill me and my family and everyone I've ever met or glimpsed or thought about, in wretched, shrieking, unimaginable and horrendously protracted agony." Don't get me wrong. It doesn't happen that often: every few days at the most. But it happened this afternoon when I clicked "play" on a CGI demonstration of some new technology the US air force is reportedly working on right now. Before anyone tries to deport me, I hadn't hacked into some Pentagon server to see it; I was reading an article on the Atlantic. Lower those stun pistols. The video depicted the future of UAVs: unmanned aerial vehicles, or computer-controlled drones to you and me. Drones are already used to kill people in industrial quantities in Pakistan of course. For a sobering assessment of just how far advanced the war of the machines is getting, check out the Wikipedia page called "List of drone strikes in Pakistan". It's a directory of robot attacks with a lot of dead children in it. Accurate or not, it's much harder to chortle about the rise of the Terminators after you've scrolled through it. A fairly desperate list of al-Qaida's drone defence measures was uncovered last week: evasion techniques mainly included running in and out of doors and spreading broken glass on the roof so the glint would confuse its sensors. This already has the feel of a desperate human fightback against a merciless robot army, like the sort of methods an Amazonian tribe might resort to when battling Cybermen in an as-yet unwritten episode of Doctor Who. Most of the flying robots carrying out those kill missions are eerie, windowless airborne hulks bristling with Hellfire missiles. Enormous winged battledicks. They're frightening, but visually silly somehow, which adds to the obscenity of it all. The smaller drones in the video I watched look sillier still, but potentially more deadly. Compared with the current models flying over Pakistan, they have fearsome advantages of stealth, agility – and sheer number. Because there were swarms of the things. Some were the size of pigeons. In fact, they actively disguised themselves as pigeons: they landed on overhead phonelines and folded their wings around themselves so the folk down below wouldn't get too suspicious. Then they hovered around gathering surveillance information. At one point the video shows a company of multiple "bugbots", each the size of a Milky Way bar, spreading out to wirelessly compile a good overall view of an apparently hostile city. Then one of them sneaks past a guard, swoops down a corridor, flies through a doorway and shoots a bad guy in the head. The only thing currently holding this stuff back is battery technology, although they're reportedly already working on ways to let the flying deathbots leach power from electricity cables to recharge themselves mid-mission. See? Precisely the sort of thing that'll definitely kill us all. Never mind North Korean nuclear tests: what happens when they launch a billion-strong regiment of robotic sparrows with buzzsaws for beaks in our direction? I know, I know, it's not how you pictured yourself dying – but that's what's going to happen. Sorry to break it to you on a cold Sunday night, but forewarned is forearmed. Not that you're actually forearmed in any real sense. No. You're helpless to stop it. Sorry about that, too. Because the video was accompanying a new story, I assumed it was new. But a few hours later, while trying to show it to someone I wanted to profoundly depress for a laugh, I discovered the same footage had also been uploaded to YouTube in 2009, prompting me to wonder if it was a hoax, or perhaps just a cutscene from a video game lifted out of context. That gave me a glimmer of hope, which was immediately extinguished when I recalled my own experiences with making up things of a technological nature: they almost invariably come true, quicker than you think. A fortnight ago, Channel 4 broadcast a fanciful drama I'd written in which a young widow communicates with a piece of AI software that mimics her dead husband by trawling his social networking past and emulating his personality. No sooner had the credits rolled than people were pointing me in the direction of a company claiming to offer that very service. Turns out I needn't have bothered writing a script. I could've just typed out the URL and asked them to televise that instead. With that in mind, my new rule is that if you can picture something on the cusp of plausibility, it'll definitely be real by Christmas. Given that the bugbot video is at least three years old, I'd be flabbergasted if there isn't a production line silently screwing the wings on to a miniature death squadron in some Nevadan hangar right now. A tit-for-tat war of the minibots will unfold and come 2036 or so, it's death by buzzbird for the lot of us. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to spread broken glass on the roof and run in and out of some doors http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/feb/24/new-wave-of-micro-drones Thoughts of Charlie Brooker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 8947 Posted February 25, 2013 Share Posted February 25, 2013 I want a swarm of them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sniffer 0 Posted February 25, 2013 Share Posted February 25, 2013 I think they are probably all spoken for. Which is good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted May 24, 2013 Author Share Posted May 24, 2013 President Barack Obama has defended the use of drones in a "just war" of self-defence against deadly militants and a campaign that had made America safer. In a wide-ranging speech on a programme shrouded in secrecy, he said there must be "near certainty" that no civilians would die in such strikes. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22638533 Worthy of Dr Strangelove. Check out this well put together infographic... http://drones.pitchinteractive.com/ He has less than a 2% success rate ffs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aimaad22 3418 Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 http://www.bbc.co.uk...canada-22638533 Worthy of Dr Strangelove. Check out this well put together infographic... http://drones.pitchinteractive.com/ He has less than a 2% success rate ffs Even more shameful is the fact our shameless government is right in on this. No surprises that the guy who said he'd have these drones shot down mysteriously lost in the recent general elections despite having unprecedented public support. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Life 70 Posted June 6, 2013 Share Posted June 6, 2013 http://www.bbc.co.uk...canada-22638533 Worthy of Dr Strangelove. Check out this well put together infographic... http://drones.pitchinteractive.com/ He has less than a 2% success rate ffs Can they be sent to the corner shop for fags? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted June 6, 2013 Author Share Posted June 6, 2013 Can they be sent to the corner shop for fags? They'll be in the skies over your German pad soon... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22678580 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Life 70 Posted June 6, 2013 Share Posted June 6, 2013 It'll be just on the depot's bro. There aren't even any video cameras here (just at train stations). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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