F-16 Drone

[davepool]

Didn’t realize drone technology had advanced this far so quickly. They are using up their obsolete F-16’s. Not a good day for the future of manned aircraft. Seems like the PILOT is on the endangered list. This little 4 minute video is really something. A first for a full size jet airplane. Thousands of planes that were grave yard bound, with costs in the hundreds of millions, can now be used as never before. These F-16’s Boeing aircraft have been in the bone yard at Davis-Monthan for 15 years , and now being used as drones.





http://video.boeing.com/services/player/bcpid1173939806001?bckey=AQ~~%2cAAAAukPAlqE~%2coAV q1qtdRjwBrIkHYj2MSytJiEK9s5fy&bclid=0&bctid=2684464741001

[FunkyPertwee]

Two Air Force pilots are flying it remotely. This is not a computer piloted air craft. I wouldn't worry about the pilot's jobs until after AI is able to run these things, and even then, as one USAF pilot told me, the human mind can make certain on-the-fly decisions that a protocol based AI wouldn't be able to come to due to an inability to think creatively.

[5.56NATO]

Two Air Force pilots are flying it remotely. This is not a computer piloted air craft. I wouldn't worry about the pilot's jobs until after AI is able to run these things, and even then, as one USAF pilot told me, the human mind can make certain on-the-fly decisions that a protocol based AI wouldn't be able to come to due to an inability to think creatively.

Speaking of wich....


The Military’s New Year’s Resolution for Artificial Intelligence
In November, Undersecretary of Defense Frank Kendall quietly issued a memo to the Defense Science Board that could go on to play a role in history.
Patrick Tucker is technology editor for Defense One. He’s also the author of The Naked Future: What Happens in a World That Anticipates Your Every Move? Previously, Tucker was deputy editor for The Futurist, where he served for nine years.

The memo calls for a new study that would “identify the science, engineering, and policy problems that must be solved to permit greater operational use of autonomy across all war-fighting domains…Emphasis will be given to exploration of the bounds-both technological and social-that limit the use of autonomy across a wide range of military operations. The study will ask questions such as: What activities cannot today be performed autonomously? When is human intervention required? What limits the use of autonomy? How might we overcome those limits and expand the use of autonomy in the near term as well as over the next 2 decades?”

A Defense Department official very close to the effort framed the request more simply. “We want a real roadmap for autonomy” he told Defense One. What does that mean, and how would a “real roadmap” influence decision-making in the years ahead? One outcome of the Defense Science Board 2015 Summer Study on Autonomy, assuming the results are eventually made public, is that the report’s findings could refute or confirm some of our worst fears about the future of artificial intelligence.
http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2014/12/militarys-new-years-resolution-artificial-intelligence/102102/

Just imagine the plausible deniability and lack of accountability autonomous drones at war will provide!
They will realise the theory of 90 and 10, where the 90 percent of all people are ruled by the ten percent, and have no way of recovering their liberty because they can't fight the drones, who are of course controlled by the 10 percent.

[davepool]

Two Air Force pilots are flying it remotely. This is not a computer piloted air craft. I wouldn't worry about the pilot's jobs until after AI is able to run these things, and even then, as one USAF pilot told me, the human mind can make certain on-the-fly decisions that a protocol based AI wouldn't be able to come to due to an inability to think creatively.

I think having AI control these planes will be the ultimate "man against machine" training. Equal equipment, one flown by a computer and one flown by a skilled pilot

[N/A]

Will we program it with the Three Laws of Robotics ?

[Oswald Bastable]

Will we program it with the Three Laws of Robotics ?

No...haven't you seen Terminator?

[N/A]

Yeah, but if we program it in now, we won't have to worry about them showing up last week to crash this thread tonight.

[Oswald Bastable]

It's inevitable...gov't is incapable of thinking that deeply. :)

[davepool]

Will we program it with the Three Laws of Robotics ?

Yea, but probably not Asimovs version

[5.56NATO]

They're making great strides in creating robots that seek out their own power sources to combust.
http://www.digitaltrends.com/home/robotic-lawnmower-runs-on-grass/
Imagine one that can use up entire families.