Air Force F-35As join an exercise using a Finnish highway as a runway.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.avweb.com/polls-quizzes/poll-3
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.avweb.com/polls-quizzes/poll-3
It would give a new meaning to “VIDEO GAMES”. Only casualty will be the loser’s ego.
That’s so last-century. Lasker&Parkes gave us WOPR in “War Games”, “The Twilight Zone” explored that idea in several episodes, and fiction writers have been addressing the question since before the turn of the previous century. It was Karel Čapek’s play “R.U.R” that gave us the word "robot’ over a hundred years ago. They all tend to share the ethnocentric idea that it’s better not to put our own people at risk while killing “other” people.
The best idea I ever ran across was from a low-budget hyper-creative BBC sci-fi-spoof series back in the late 1980’s-90’, “Red Dwarf”. In one episode (“Justice”, I think) the protagonists visit a prison world with no guards. They aren’t necessary because of a force field that reflects any violence inflicted by a prisoner back onto that person. That didn’t eliminate disagreements, of course, but it did curb the worst behavior.
Cheap drones and robots will lead to the democratization of power.
Anduril CEO, Palmer Luckey, has said so as well. And, seeing as his company is almost single-handedly responsible for Ukraine managing to stand its ground so far, I believe him.
When a cheap CNC, a 3D printer, and some ingenuity are able to negate the might of an aircraft carrier, we may finally know peace.
Well, it looks like AvWeb really needs a few AI kernels associating comments with story threads. On the topic of drones and AI, this “improved” forum that is disassociated with threads shows Avweb is well behind the technology.