Getting this patchwork of weapons to work will be another test for Anduril and Palmer Luckey
US Military struggling to deploy AI weapons
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Re: US Military struggling to deploy AI weapons
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
> weaponizing that against their adversaries I understand your skepticism, but here is an interview from April 2025 with the founder of VYRIY, a Ukrainian drone company: https://militarnyi.com/en/news/vyriy-founder-compares-accura... According to him, Russian drones are far superior. "In terms of [Ukrainian drone vs Russian drone] quality, well, like 10% vs. 80%. It’s not even comparable,” Oleksii Babenko sums up.
That article suggests that the difference is due to economics & possibly intended use, not technological advances.
Manufacturing is a technology.
Re: US Military struggling to deploy AI weapons
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can we not use examples from the bottom 5% of the population and extrapolate that to the entire population? Also 99.99% chance the guy was making a joke.
> bottom 5% of the population Where did that number come from? > Also 99.99% chance the guy was making a joke. If you have no idea who this person is how can you even begin to make such an assumption? You are in fact 100% wrong.
Not getting jokes is a skill issue, what can I say.
Re: US Military struggling to deploy AI weapons
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
The US and EU/NATO are facing growing technological obsolescence. They lack the capability to effectively counter modern threats and appear disconnected from the realities of contemporary warfare. A clear example is NATO’s struggle to respond to Russian drone incursions. Recently, over 20 drones were launched into Polish airspace—yet only four were intercepted, at a cost of millions of dollars. The remainder crashed…
Oh, totally, I'm so glad you have all the facts and can enlighten us. I think NATO is more important now than it has been in decades.
NATO can't decide if they should try and shoot down Russian missiles and drones over their territory because they are afraid to escalate and don't want to anger Russia. Did you know they only agreed to shoot down Russian war planes flying over NATO territory after Trump okayed it? Unbelievable that they would let an adversary fly their bombers over their territory in the first place. Did you know that NATO has member countries that are aligned with Russia? I encourage you not to take my word for it but investigate it for yourself, there are plenty of trustworthy Western Analysts that support what I have said.
Trump said that Russia is a paper tiger/bear, but Russia exposed that the West/EU is just as incompetent and NATO is basically useless without the support of the USA which is questionable. But I'm sure 100% NATO will get a chance to prove its worth, it will be interesting to see if it can meet the coming challenges.
Re: US Military struggling to deploy AI weapons
#45The US is too proud to admit that Ukraine is the world expert on drone warfare and that Americans should learn from Ukrainians. "Ukraine's homegrown drones have become increasingly lethal, critical tools in war with Russia" https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ukraine-fedorov-drones-war-rus... "Poland turns to Ukraine for drone warfare expertise after Russian weapons enter airspace" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/poland…
That is a really silly take. The US has had "advisors" embedded with Ukraine forces since the beginning of the war. Multiple high level Pentagon officials (think multi-star generals) have mentioned in interviews over the years how valuable is the intel they have been learning and collecting from the war. I can guarantee you that somewhere in Langley there are many analysts constantly churning out reports about battle…
> I like to think that there is core of career public servants inside the US government who take their jobs seriously and they perform it well.
That could have been taken for granted in every administration before this one.
Re: US Military struggling to deploy AI weapons
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
> bottom 5% of the population Where did that number come from? > Also 99.99% chance the guy was making a joke. If you have no idea who this person is how can you even begin to make such an assumption? You are in fact 100% wrong.
Not getting jokes is a skill issue, what can I say.
You can say you are wrong because you don't know the person at all.
Re: US Military struggling to deploy AI weapons
#47The US is too proud to admit that Ukraine is the world expert on drone warfare and that Americans should learn from Ukrainians. "Ukraine's homegrown drones have become increasingly lethal, critical tools in war with Russia" https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ukraine-fedorov-drones-war-rus... "Poland turns to Ukraine for drone warfare expertise after Russian weapons enter airspace" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/poland…
Two points here. (1) A lot of technology that Ukraine uses is based on what the Western countries have provided them. (2) Ukraine struggles with AI as well, in fact, according to some sources, Ukraine is already behind Russia in drone technology. One of the reasons cited is that they invested heavily into AI and it did not yield viable drones. On the other hand, Russians decided to invest into manually controlled dro…
1. Did you read the first link? Virtually all of Ukraine's FPV (first-person view) attack drones are domestically produced.
2. If that's the case, why is the US trying to invest heavily into AI as well if we learned from Ukraine that AI controlled drones are shittier than human controlled drones?
Re: US Military struggling to deploy AI weapons
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The US is too proud to admit that Ukraine is the world expert on drone warfare and that Americans should learn from Ukrainians. there is literally nobody in America who nurses that type of pride, quite the opposite, Americans have been unusually open to integrating foreign ideas from the beginning.
Broad statement.
i took a peek, you didn't reply "broad statment" to the comment I was replying to... hmmm, pov masquerading as logic/grammar nazi?
Re: US Military struggling to deploy AI weapons
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Two points here. (1) A lot of technology that Ukraine uses is based on what the Western countries have provided them. (2) Ukraine struggles with AI as well, in fact, according to some sources, Ukraine is already behind Russia in drone technology. One of the reasons cited is that they invested heavily into AI and it did not yield viable drones. On the other hand, Russians decided to invest into manually controlled dro…
1. Did you read the first link? Virtually all of Ukraine's FPV (first-person view) attack drones are domestically produced. 2. If that's the case, why is the US trying to invest heavily into AI as well if we learned from Ukraine that AI controlled drones are shittier than human controlled drones?
> If that's the case, why is the US trying to invest heavily into AI as well if we learned from Ukraine that AI controlled drones are shittier than human controlled drones?
What is according to your estimates the ratio for research funding for human-controlled and AI-controlled weapons in the US nowadays?
Re: US Military struggling to deploy AI weapons
#50I once backed a kickstarter for a US company called Vantage Robotics. They were building a cool drone and it looked like it would be fun to have. It took them about 2 years to get it delivered and by then, drone technology had advanced far past what they were offering. The thing crashed on its first flight, destroying it. Instead of just shutting down, they dropped all their early supporters and pivoted to US militar…
You are right, the only moral thing for them to do is ship fully explosive military grade versions of their product to all backers