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Machines.
C_Mon
A Genuine Sucker
in Zocalo v2.0
Wow, they're allready trying to turn on us.
[url]http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=11456[/url]
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[url]http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=11456[/url]
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Selling robots wall to wall
Ones that cleaned and entertained
A robot chef, a robot maid
Then one night on a dare
I made my robots self-aware
And it wasn't really planned,
But now the robots rule the land
And we're happier than we've ever been
There was fighting, sure, at first
When the bots conquered the Earth
All the people thought we're doomed
That by robots we'd be consumed
But we humans had no chance
Robots stunned us with a glance
And after the human's final stand
It was the robots ruled the land
Now we're happier than we've ever been
That's the last war that we've seen
By decree of robot queen
All the studies now do show
That at ruling, humans blow
Law's more carefully applied
With a logic-loving guide
Now with an impartial hand
It's the robots rule the land
Now we're happier than we've ever been
That said, Biggles makes a good point, by moving the point of judgement away from the intensity of the battle, it may allow the soldier to make decisions without the benefit of human interaction. Of course by the same token, without having to deal with the immediate fear of danger, it may also allow the soldier to take a moment longer to make a decision. With a remote controlled vehicle, esp one resistant to small arms fire, one might have a few more seconds to analyize and react to a situation.
Jake
Even if it ain't too resistant, it expendable and replaceable. So even if it means risking destruction, investigating first and shooting later *ought* become an option.
Whether that actually happens, doesn't naturally depend on the remote drone, but its operator and their work environment.
This kind of a tool seems potentially quite useful for charting out dangerous places... unless of course there's an expectation of needing to communicate with people, in which case an armed robot is definitely not a good bet.
P.S. I wonder how easily their communications systems are jammed? If it's not meant to be vulnerable, it better have some mighty fine randomly keyed wide-spectrum frequency hopping radio, and properly encrypted+authenticated data links.