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The wave of automation that swept away tens of thousands of American manufacturing and office jobs during the past two decades is now washing over the armed forces, putting both rear-echelon and front-line positions in jeopardy.
“Just as in the civilian economy, automation will likely have a big impact on military organizations in logistics and manufacturing,” said Michael Horowitz, a University of Pennsylvania professor and one of the globe’s foremost experts on weaponized robots.
“The U.S. military is very likely to pursue forms of automation that reduce ‘back-office’ costs over time, as well as remove soldiers from non-combat deployments where they might face risk from adversaries on fluid battlefields, such as in transportation.”
Driver-less vehicles poised to take taxi, train and truck driver jobs in the civilian sector also could nab many combat-support slots in the Army.
Warehouse robots that scoot goods to delivery vans could run the same chores inside Air Force ordnance and supply units.
New machines that can scan, collate and analyze hundreds of thousands of pages of legal documents in a day might outperform Navy legal researchers.
Fragile market conditions, poorly controlled algorithms, and inexperienced staff all contributed to October’s flash crash in sterling, global policymakers have concluded, with the Bank for International Settlements urging banks and other market participants to learn from their mistakes.
Last Friday the sterling has experienced a dramatic, ultrafast crash. It lost 10% of its value in minutes after the Asian markets opened — a decline usually reserved to declarations of war, major earthquakes and global catastrophes — and bounced right back. Although the affected exchanges are yet to release the details, computer trading algorithms almost certainly played a key role. Just like the 2010 Flash Crash, yesterday’s event is characteristic to Ultrafast Extreme Events[1]: split-second spikes in trade caused by ever smarter algorithms razor-focused on making ever-quicker profits. But the arms race is only likely to intensify as computing speed accelerates and AI algorithms become more intelligent.
Stock exchanges have become war zones where algotraders compete over pennies millions of times a second.
Dr Eden, principal at Sapience.org, adds: “There is financial and military incentive to delegate increasingly more important decisions to superfast machines. High-speed firms now oversee almost all stocks at NYSE[9]. US’s Department of Defence is funding the development of autonomous lethal weapons (“killer robots”) which will make superfast decisions to (literally) pull the trigger without human intervention. As the algotrading arms race created ‘flash crashes’, the robotic arms race could lead to Flash Wars[10]. By handing power over to superfast processes we may lose control.”
originally posted by: butcherguy
I watched a video yesterday showing a test deployment of swarming Perdix micro drones from a pair of F-18 aircraft.
All I could think of was Skynet and how machines will end up killing our species off.
Here is a link to the video: Funker 530
The United States Military was able to successfully test a swarm of 103 Perdix drones launched from an F/A-18 Super Hornet in China Lake, California in October of 2016. During the test, the drones performed exceptionally well, displaying advanced swarming behaviors such as adaptive formation flight, and advanced decision making based on their surroundings.
According to a press release from the Pentagon, this test is one of the most advanced and significant tests in autonomous flight. “Due to the complex nature of combat, Perdix are not pre-programmed synchronized individuals, they are a collective organism, sharing one distributed brain for decision-making and adapting to each other like swarms in nature,” said William Roper, director of the Strategic Capabilities Office.
Driver-less vehicles poised to take taxi, train and truck driver jobs in the civilian sector also could nab many combat-support slots in the Army.
originally posted by: butcherguy
a reply to: neoholographic
I find it a bit scary.
This will be just the beginning and like Elon Musk talked about, people need to prepare when huge amounts of jobs are wiped because of things like self driving cars and trucks and automation in other industries.
originally posted by: CrapAsUsual
a reply to: neoholographic
Good, now we´ll see an increase in deployment of EMP bombs.
originally posted by: neoholographic
originally posted by: butcherguy
I watched a video yesterday showing a test deployment of swarming Perdix micro drones from a pair of F-18 aircraft.
All I could think of was Skynet and how machines will end up killing our species off.
Here is a link to the video: Funker 530
Thanks for the post. That's an interesting read:
The United States Military was able to successfully test a swarm of 103 Perdix drones launched from an F/A-18 Super Hornet in China Lake, California in October of 2016. During the test, the drones performed exceptionally well, displaying advanced swarming behaviors such as adaptive formation flight, and advanced decision making based on their surroundings.
According to a press release from the Pentagon, this test is one of the most advanced and significant tests in autonomous flight. “Due to the complex nature of combat, Perdix are not pre-programmed synchronized individuals, they are a collective organism, sharing one distributed brain for decision-making and adapting to each other like swarms in nature,” said William Roper, director of the Strategic Capabilities Office.
www.funker530.com...
Here's the video:
...Endeavor’s front-line robots aren’t that different from the automation arriving in rear-echelon units like North Island Naval Air Station’s Fleet Readiness Center Southwest.
At the center, Inovati KM-PCS, a $500,000 robot that looks like a cake mixer mated with a dental drill, hasn’t missed a day of work in over a year and has saved taxpayers at least $6.7 million by fixing aircraft parts that used to get junked.