It’s more like we’re giving the machine more opportunities to go off accidentally or potentially encouraging more use of civilian camouflage to try and evade our hunter killer drones.
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FaceDeer@kbin.social 11 months ago
If you program an AI drone to recognize ambulances and medics and forbid them from blowing them up, then you can be sure that they will never intentionally blow them up. That alone makes them superior to having a Mk. I Human holding the trigger, IMO.
Chuckf1366@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
kromem@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Right, because self-driving cars have been great at correctly identifying things.
And those LLMs have been following their rules to the letter.
We really need to let go of our projected concepts of AI in the face of what’s actually been arriving. And one of those things we need to let go of is the concept of immutable rule following and accuracy.
In any real world deployment of killer drones, there’s going to be an acceptable false positive rate that’s been signed off on.
FaceDeer@kbin.social 11 months ago
We are talking about developing technology, not existing tech.
And actually, machines have become quite adept at image recognition. For some things they're already better at it than we are.
crypticthree@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Did you know that “if” is the middle word of life
GigglyBobble@kbin.social 11 months ago
Unless the operator decides hitting exactly those targets fits their strategy and they can blame a software bug.
FaceDeer@kbin.social 11 months ago
And then when they go looking for that bug and find the logs showing that the operator overrode the safeties instead, they know exactly who is responsible for blowing up those ambulances.
GigglyBobble@kbin.social 11 months ago
And if the operator was commanded to do it? And to delete the logs? How naive are you that this is somehow make war more humane?
FaceDeer@kbin.social 11 months ago
Each additional safeguard makes it harder and adds another name to the eventual war crimes trial. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good, especially when it comes to reducing the number of ambulances that get blown up in war zones.
mihies@kbin.social 11 months ago
It doesn't work like that though. Western (backed) military can do and does that unpunished.
mihies@kbin.social 11 months ago
Here is a sample of US drone killing civilians
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Israeli general: Captain, were you responsible for reprogramming the drones to bomb those ambulances?
Israeli captain: Yes, sir! Sorry, sir!
Israeli general: Captain, you’re just the sort of man we need in this army.
FaceDeer@kbin.social 11 months ago
Ah, evil people exist and therefore we should never develop technology that evil people could use. Right.