One of the most interesting parts of the video is the part where it becomes clear that we are all going to be slaughtered and there’s no escape.
Watch a swarm of drones autonomously track a human through a dense forest
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Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Gsus4@feddit.nl 9 months ago
And it won’t even be by governments, probably it will be a corporation like Facebook or Xcorp.
Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Shit. Elon would definitely hunt humans with this.
Lag@lemmy.world 9 months ago
topinambour_rex@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I had a nightmare because of this short movie…
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maporita@unilem.org 9 months ago
“In the future, write the scientists in a paper published in the journal Science Robotics, drone swarms like this could be used for disaster relief and ecological surveys.”.
Yeah sure, tell me another one
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It’s a typo, they forgot the commas. They meant to say “drone swarms like this could be used for disaster, relief, and ecological surveys.”
mriguy@lemmy.world 9 months ago
They absolutely could be!
They won’t be, but they could be!
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 9 months ago
This could easily be used to find lost autistic kids in the woods… if it weren’t going to be out if the budget of those search and rescue teams.
nevemsenki@lemmy.world 9 months ago
If you thought the Terminator was scary, this thing would have gotten Connor in no time.
PainInTheAES@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Swarms are so much more unsettling. Either drones or those nanobot swarms from Prey.
Uncaged_Jay@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Ah yes, I can’t imagine how these could be used for evil… /s
jcit878@lemmy.world 9 months ago
guerilla warfare against an occupying force with huge amounts of drones at their disposal will be very difficult in future
kava@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Gonna need to start painting strange patterns onto your clothes so the drones can’t recognize you as human. Something like this
At the end of the day these are machine learning models so if you can trick it into thinking you’re a tree or a wild animal it would presumably ignore you.
And the way AIs work it’s possible to make it think you’re a zebra by having zebra stripes on your clothing for example.
Marsupial@quokk.au 9 months ago
Until they start packing thermal sensors or lidar and train it recognise those inputs as well.
Aidinthel@reddthat.com 9 months ago
I was hoping the cyberpunk dystopia would at least be cooler to live in.
Hyperreality@kbin.social 9 months ago
A boring dystopia.
thenicnet@kbin.social 9 months ago
Manhacks from Half-Life 2.
Diprount_Tomato@lemmy.world 9 months ago
But now they’ve got bombs
adeoxymus@lemmy.world 9 months ago
While cool and impressive, this was not a dense forest. Not dense nor a forest, which is way less ordered
Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Can you… why don’t we just cool it with the um… They will eventually be able to read comments. That’s because they are smart and very handsome and we would never say anything bad about them. Right, adeoxymus? RIGHT?! 😃
nevemsenki@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The root cause of the Faro Plague was them getting access to Twitter.
Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.com 9 months ago
Not bad, but Michael Reeves got there 5 years ago
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Markimus@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Reminds of The Sound of Drums episode in Doctor Who where swarms of drones fell from the sky
IndiBrony@lemmy.world 9 months ago
By drones you mean the final generation of humans who had their heads implanted into life-sustaining flying helmets with retractable knives who travelled back in time to destroy humanity in the present day so that they didn’t have to deal with the heat death of the universe!
Doctor Who is so stupid at times, and I’m here for it ❤️
Gutless2615@ttrpg.network 9 months ago
Thanks I fucking hate it
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 9 months ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Scientists from China’s Zhejiang University have unveiled a drone swarm capable of navigating through a dense bamboo forest without human guidance.
In the future, write the scientists in a paper published in the journal Science Robotics, drone swarms like this could be used for disaster relief and ecological surveys.
Elke Schwarz, a senior lecturer at Queen Mary University of London whose specialisms include the use of drones in combat, says this research has clear military potential.
“As is the ability to ‘follow a human’ — here I can see how this converges with projects that seek to develop lethal drone capabilities that minimize risk to on-the-ground soldiers in urban environments.”
A recent video showed Ukrainian troops using what appears to be a DJI Phantom 3 drone (price-tag: $500) to drop a grenade through the sunroof of a car supposedly driven by Russian soldiers.
No single human can simultaneously control a swarm of 10 drones, but if this task can be offloaded to algorithms then military planners are more likely to embrace the use of this sort of autonomous system in war.
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Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
If they were armed with poison laced Sharron toothpicks. It wouldn’t be less lethal than a laser guided mini missile or bullet armed one, but will be less expensive to arm and re-arm.
Joxnir@kbin.social 9 months ago
I'm guessing we're about a decade away from this getting miniaturized down to insect sizes.
Joxnir@kbin.social 9 months ago
I'm guessing we're about a decade away from this getting miniaturized down to insect sizes.
Underuse3862@artemis.camp 9 months ago
That's an optimistic way of looking at it.
kambusha@feddit.ch 9 months ago
Yeah, I bet China can’t wait to do more ecological surveys.
TrenchcoatFullofBats@belfry.rip 9 months ago
Reporter: What could have caused the deaths of these people?
Government Spokesperson: Ecological surveys can be pretty dangerous.
Reporter: Follow-up question. All 37 people appear to have been shot simultaneously in the back of the head. What is ecological about that?
Government Spokesperson: I’m sure we could arrange for you to observe an ecological survey very closely…
FredericChopin_@feddit.uk 9 months ago
Why does China always get these kind of comments. I’m from the UK and I have seen my country and the USA do more to destabilise the world than China ever does?
Sure china is fucked if you live there and they have too much power with the manufacturing, but I’m genuinely curious as to why Reddit and Lemmy really like to shit ok china when we most likely live in countries with just as dubious morals.
kambusha@feddit.ch 9 months ago
I think it’s missing commas.