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Title seems a little (maybe a lot?) misleading. It's not "on drones" it's actually on a video stream coming from a drone. There's a huge difference: you're doing all of the processing on a desktop/laptop PC. There's some mention at the end of the article on how to attach a PC to the drone, but basically it would be the same thing: just run the processing on a PC. Just by the title, I was expecting a clever way to run…
Title seems a little (maybe a lot?) misleading. It's not "on drones" it's actually on a video stream coming from a drone. There's a huge difference: you're doing all of the processing on a desktop/laptop PC. There's some mention at the end of the article on how to attach a PC to the drone, but basically it would be the same thing: just run the processing on a PC. Just by the title, I was expecting a clever way to run…
Is there a title you would recommend I change it to, to make it more clear?
Wow. Combine this with the ability to drop some of the latest nano-sensors (atoms strung together to build dust-sized sensors and batteries and power at scale), and we should be able to monitor absolutely everything everywhere. Let's see anyone even try to object to my rules or procure a weapon! And given some on-board weapons, we would never have to worry about civil unrest again. Only people grateful for the food a…
Hey MrTonyD. I understand where your coming from. But honestly most people are using this for monitoring things like Solar Panels, Wind Turbines, detecting seals and crop prediction. We can't have a sustainable future without a lot of these technologies in place. https://nanonets.com/drone/wind-turbines/ https://nanonets.com/drone/solar-panels/ All new technology will have some deviant use case associated with it. Th…
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Hey MrTonyD. I understand where your coming from. But honestly most people are using this for monitoring things like Solar Panels, Wind Turbines, detecting seals and crop prediction. We can't have a sustainable future without a lot of these technologies in place. https://nanonets.com/drone/wind-turbines/ https://nanonets.com/drone/solar-panels/ All new technology will have some deviant use case associated with it. Th…
Well, I'm 60 now and I've worked in Silicon Valley for over 40 years. So I guess I hear about all the other uses of such technology. I've worked with NSA, CIA, DIA, all the branches of military, and a bunch of people who don't officially exist. So, while there are definitely things I can't say, I will say that the "dust sensors" have been in use for many years, and I'm not describing anything theoretical. We need to…
Maybe my question is based on the assumption that you agree: stopping development of the technology in the first place is not the solution. Hopefully this assumption is correct.
Very interesting! I really liked the result. Would you mind if I linked to this tutorial in WeeklyRobotics[1]? [1] https://weeklyrobotics.com/
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Well, I'm 60 now and I've worked in Silicon Valley for over 40 years. So I guess I hear about all the other uses of such technology. I've worked with NSA, CIA, DIA, all the branches of military, and a bunch of people who don't officially exist. So, while there are definitely things I can't say, I will say that the "dust sensors" have been in use for many years, and I'm not describing anything theoretical. We need to…
Given your expertise over the many years how would you recommend we control the use of such technology? Maybe my question is based on the assumption that you agree: stopping development of the technology in the first place is not the solution. Hopefully this assumption is correct.
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Given your expertise over the many years how would you recommend we control the use of such technology? Maybe my question is based on the assumption that you agree: stopping development of the technology in the first place is not the solution. Hopefully this assumption is correct.
There is no way it can be stopped. Most of the development is secret and much further along than people believe. I think we need to regain community control over those who possess this technology - it will be deployed whether we like it or not. And, even more frightening, whoever deploys it first wins, and it will be so effective that it can no longer be defeated. This issue is more serious than global warming, jobs,…
Surely it would only be a matter of choosing to increase the efforts for a year or so in order to take these weapons from proof-of-concept to highly effective. E.g. autonomous flying gun platforms that can be deployed en masse and let loose with small or no human oversight (e.g. "hold the button to kill the person the machine has identified as a valid target", if even that level of control), or the kind of flying, target-seeking grenades envisioned in the linked video. With any level of autonomy, loitering and communication with command. It's only ethics and public perception that stops this today. In total war, a 20% mis-classification rate doesn't matter. Bombing doctrine in WW2 was much, much worse than this in its effect on civilians. Hell, many military leaders emphasized killing civilians as a desirable objective. Even present-day attacks consider "collateral damage" acceptable, even if politicians sometimes pretend otherwise.
Defending against weapons like that would be an arms race in itself, and completely beyond the reach of weaker actors. At least on a tactical level. Maybe there's strategies that could be employed as a low-cost defense, such as staying out of sensor range or confusing the sensors with adversarial patterns, but it would crush the resistance of anyone that tried a conventional defense.
Does the post-WW2 doctrine of emphasizing trade and the un-profitability of war, or ensuring that it is more economical for everyone to support a stable, free democratic economic system, still have any hope of preventing such weapons from being used?