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Well, not all killer drones run any kind of transformer model so...
Also "Civilian LLMs" use something on the order of 8 H200s, where a drone is effectively using a phone CPU from 2005.
After WW II German u-boat captains said they were never particularly bothered by dazzle camouflage. Ten years from now I have a feeling we'll get the same information from drone operators.
The article says that its already known to not work against human drone pilots, its specifically targeting AI-piloted ones
Dazzle camouflage doesn't work on killer drones. Even civilian LLMs recognize that the object on the photograph is a military truck, except they can't explain why it's been painted to resemble a zebra. Most dedicated machine vision models easily lock in on a boxy shape moving along a road. If anything, the stripes make the trucks easier to see. The real answer to killer drones is a CIWS that can cover 2pi steradians…
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A CIWS can only fire at one direction at a time, so 2+1 drones has an extremely high chance of taking it out for around $2500 or less. CIWS is multiple magnitudes more expensive. Also can't use CIWS near troops and fpvs. P1-SUN and equivalent are the answer there.
Modern dedicated AA gun systems claim multi-km engagement ranges against small drones, and 60 degree/second slew rates. A drone capable of beating that engagement time would be better described as a guided missile, and will certainly not cost $2500. The flaws in gun systems are in the cost required for good coverage, not their effectiveness against targets that do enter their engagement ranges.
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Until drones deploy counter-blinkenlights. As someone who has built a realtime people tracker art installation in a disco: Stroboscopes are highly effective at confusing these models.
Yes but you're trying to identify people. A military system is being launched at an area to destroy a target that is presumed to be trying to hide (hence AI). Absolutely nothing stops a secondary, much simpler identifier system of "home on bright flickering lights". Any system where you try to confuse an image recognition model by loudly doing something unexpected suffers from the fact that regular tracking systems h…
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This is just complete fantasy.
Apparently not : https://www.972mag.com/israeli-intelligence-database-83-perc...
> The probable result will be an arms race pitting increasingly sophisticated machine vision systems against cleverer and cleverer methods for fooling them. FPV drones are a thing. In, fact, I suspect most drones in the NATO-Russia war are FPV rather than fully autonomous.
How is it a NATO-russia war of NATO is not taking a participation? You can call it NATO-Iran, or NATO-NKorea war as well. Ukraine-Nkorea war? At least there were direct contacts between their forces.
* It supplies most ammunition and arms and much of the equipment.
* It funds most of the war effort, including arms & ammunition, salaries, covering some of the civilian budget etc. Total expenditure by "Western" countries in the period 2014-2026 is 380 Billion USD [1] and the vast majority of that is by NATO; some by other US allies.
* Its members train Ukrainian forces.
* It imposes wide sanctions against Russia (along with a few other US allies).
* Ukraine has already signed off half of all of its material resources to the US, the lead state of NATO [2].
* A negotiations process in Istanbul, having reached a draft agreement which would have concluded the war, in early 2022, was vetoed by NATO, or at least the US and the UK. [3]
And this is in the context of NATO's long-standing strategy of expanding eastwards towards Russia, which includes introducing Ukraine into its sphere of influence and possibly inducting it as a member at some point.
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[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_financial_aid_to_Ukrai...
[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine%E2%80%93United_States_...
[3] - https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/09/02/diplomacy-watch...
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Yes but you're trying to identify people. A military system is being launched at an area to destroy a target that is presumed to be trying to hide (hence AI). Absolutely nothing stops a secondary, much simpler identifier system of "home on bright flickering lights". Any system where you try to confuse an image recognition model by loudly doing something unexpected suffers from the fact that regular tracking systems h…
Consider reading the post I commented on.
Twenty four years later I'm still looking for ways to evade the spider drones deployed by PreCrime in Minority Report.
What depresses me at a human level is seeing various UA drone films where Russian soldiers don't try to dodge, move, or shoot at an incoming drone. They mostly just freeze still in the open and wait for death with the saddest look of dread and sadness on their faces. Some may throw their weapons away and stumble a few steps, but the outcome is the same. I haven't seen many surrender to FPV drone videos.