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Mossad assassinated Iran’s chief nuke scientist with remote AI gun – report

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Re: Mossad assassinated Iran’s chief nuke scientist with remote AI gun – report

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Post by 01100011 »

Not a lot of details in the article. I'm curious how 'AI' was actually used. Was it used to compensate for wind, distance, etc? Was it used to alert when the target was in range? Was it allowed to automatically recognize the target and deliver a kill shot? Was it used to make sure no innocents were behind him? Why did the apparatus weigh over a ton?

It was only a matter of time before this happened though. With off-the-shelf technology today, even lesser advanced nations, groups and even individuals could put something like this together. Throw in the skills of a more advanced nation, and you get something like this that works from a mile away and effectively destroys all trace of itself before anyone notices. Devices like this could lie in wait for years waiting for the target information to be passed to them. We live in interesting times.

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Post by uncoder0 »

_alxk wrote: post #13
amoshi wrote: post #7

This seems to be a clickbait headline - where is the AI part? It was just a remotely controlled gun. >Next, the report details how the sniper who took out Fakhrizadeh did so remotely from Israel, over 1,600 kilometers away, since the hit squad had long ago left Iran.

They apparently used some ML to make predictions about the position of the driver and the future position of the vehicle to account for the lag when they pulled the remote trigger from hundreds of miles away.

That's pretty trivial 'AI'. The headline mentioning AI is just for clickbait, in reality it was just a remotely-operated drone gun with a fire control system.

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Post by jsudi »

sillysaurusx wrote: post #12

So what is Israel likely to do when Iran has a working nuke? I ask as a half jew. These questions are intensely interesting to me. Probably "no one knows" is a decent answer, but I can't help but wonder what sort of plans are already in place. EDIT: I immediately regret asking about politics. Never mind. Hopefully things will work out.

Demand the USA pays for an endless war in money and American lives, obviously.

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Post by sgregnt »

_fnhr wrote: post #9

So this is a public bragging about illegally putting a gun in a foreign country and assassinating a person, all the while being comfortably sure that no national or international pushback will come. Quite disturbing to read.

This is a leak like hundred of other leaks.

But, it seems like you are trying to push a certain agenda and paint the info in a certain way.

Here's another way to frame the same info: At least someone tries to prevent a war and prevent bad actors from obtaining nuclear weapons.

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Post by praptak »

safog wrote: post #11
hamburgerwah wrote: post #2

I don't know what else could make it any clearer but the world is already well into an AI terminator WW3.

Isn't that fine? Let's get a bunch of robot armies in one place like we used to do in the ancient days and let them duke it out. Whoever wins wins. Army jobs getting automated is one thing I could get behind. Just keep the drones out of the civilian areas.

That's exactly what Gatling thought of machine guns. They were supposed to automate the military jobs which was supposed to limit casualties and also make humanity reconsider going to war.

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Post by Isamu »

_alxk wrote: post #13
amoshi wrote: post #7

This seems to be a clickbait headline - where is the AI part? It was just a remotely controlled gun. >Next, the report details how the sniper who took out Fakhrizadeh did so remotely from Israel, over 1,600 kilometers away, since the hit squad had long ago left Iran.

They apparently used some ML to make predictions about the position of the driver and the future position of the vehicle to account for the lag when they pulled the remote trigger from hundreds of miles away.

Sounds like something you’d use a Kalman filter for.

Except maybe because a Kalman filter expects Gaussian inputs, something fancier is used to deal with nonlinear inputs?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalman_filter

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Post by maweki »

BurningFrog wrote: post #19
_fnhr wrote: post #9

So this is a public bragging about illegally putting a gun in a foreign country and assassinating a person, all the while being comfortably sure that no national or international pushback will come. Quite disturbing to read.

Iran and Israel are at low level war since many decades.

Though you don't see Iran going around killing the people responsible for Israel's nuclear arsenal.

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Post by LewisVerstappen »

BurningFrog wrote: post #19
_fnhr wrote: post #9

So this is a public bragging about illegally putting a gun in a foreign country and assassinating a person, all the while being comfortably sure that no national or international pushback will come. Quite disturbing to read.

Iran and Israel are at low level war since many decades.

How many Israeli scientists have Iran assassinated?

Re: Mossad assassinated Iran’s chief nuke scientist with remote AI gun – report

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Post by benbenbenjerry »

01100011 wrote: post #21

Not a lot of details in the article. I'm curious how 'AI' was actually used. Was it used to compensate for wind, distance, etc? Was it used to alert when the target was in range? Was it allowed to automatically recognize the target and deliver a kill shot? Was it used to make sure no innocents were behind him? Why did the apparatus weigh over a ton? It was only a matter of time before this happened though. With off-t…

The term AI was used by The Jerusalem Post in this article to get the attention of people in places like here to give the impression that Israel is technologically advanced and therefore should be more appealing than Iran.
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