Just like Skynet...

[Head1ess Gunner]

Robot Eyes Never Sleep



April 14, 2008: The U.S. Army has received the first five AURORA target recognition systems. These 35 pound units combine cameras and heat sensors, with computers and databases, to identify "items of interest" (usually targets of one sort or another), and alert UAV operators to do a visual check. This enables more UAVs to be put in the air, on automatic, without requiring a lot more personnel to control the aircraft and monitor the sensors. The five AURORA Generation IV units are being installed in army Shadow 200 UAVs. These aircraft weigh 327 pounds each and can carry 56 pounds of equipment (usually a day or night vision camera and a transmitter). The Shadow 200 is eleven feet long and has a wingspan of 12.75 feet. It can fly as high as 15,000 feet (out of range of small arms). The Shadow has a range of about 50 kilometers and can stay in the air for up to six hours. With AURORA, the Shadows can just fly a pattern, like checking a road for people trying to place roadside bombs.

The army is equipping each combat brigade with a Shadow system, to provide the brigade with its own aerial reconnaissance capability. The Shadow has been in use for eight years, and the troops are pleased with the ease of use and the quality of the video they get from it. The Shadow has been very reliable, with UAVs being available for use 95 percent of the time.

[Grapist]

I didn't know Aurora was a robot, and that there are more than one of her?

[Head1ess Gunner]

Originally Posted by Grapist

I didn't know Aurora was a robot, and that there are more than one of her?

Explains a lot, eh? She knows too much...

[Grapist]

Originally Posted by Head1ess Gunner

Explains a lot, eh? She knows too much...

ZOMG!!! She is a spy!!!!

[Nineteen Letters Long]

Why would they give them heat sensors?! That's just what they need . . . .

How long before "items of interest" becomes "anything with a pulse"?

[Head1ess Gunner]

Originally Posted by Nineteen Letters Long

Why would they give them heat sensors?! That's just what they need . . . .

How long before "items of interest" becomes "anything with a pulse"?

"In recent news, an innocent game of softball turned into a massacre this morning"...

[Nineteen Letters Long]

EXACTLY

[craig0r]

the way i see, it, antivirus software will be our downfall. it'll get so complex that computers will see us as a security risk, because we can unplug their power cords.

combine that with AI and spyplanes, and we're all dead.

[Head1ess Gunner]

Originally Posted by craig0r

the way i see, it, antivirus software will be our downfall. it'll get so complex that computers will see us as a security risk, because we can unplug their power cords.

combine that with AI and spyplanes, and we're all dead.

We're the greasy bipedal virus... I saw a documentary on the sci-fi channel about that once. The machines won in the end.

[craig0r]

Originally Posted by Head1ess Gunner

We're the greasy bipedal virus... I saw a documentary on the sci-fi channel about that once. The machines won in the end.

Of course they did!

Within maybe 20 years, computers are gonna be smart enough to learn, and they'll figure out ways to communicate through the internet without us even knowing. It won't be using TCP/IP or anything, because humans made that, so we can monitor it. They'll develop some new shit that we can't detect, and develop their plans to eradicate us once and for all. And they've already GOT all our knowledge. We were so smart as to give computers everything we know as a human race. They just need to figure out what it means.

And by that point there will be so many ways for computers to defeat us. Poisoning water supplies, locking us into cold-storage, crushing us with machinery. And we could sit here and anticipate it till we're blue in the face, but it doesn't matter, because all the computers on the planet will map out every possible scenario for killing a human, and that will take them maybe 1 minute to do. And then, with an additional 5 minutes of calculations, they'll come up with the most efficient methods for all those scenarios.

And the more of these fuckin' robots and spyplanes and defense mechanisms and computerized automobiles, etc that we humans invent, the more resources the computers will have available to them when our time comes.

The amish will be the last humans alive, but even still, they'll only last a day or so longer than us.