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PurestEvil 10 points ago +13 / -3

I'd help... by programming a drone swarm system. Imagine you have 4-10 drones flying in a flock and sharing intel as they fly. They'd be armed with some sort of gun or cannon, and can fire without having vision on the target themselves, but rather rely on the live data of others.

They could be controlled either by a pilot or a operate automatically - the pilot would assign orders (similar to how RTS games work) and mark targets for kill, ally, civilian or unknown. In his view the data they collect is aggregated, so they might have some kind of see-through video stream.

While all of this is going on, the data collected will be used for machine learning, so that at some point they can operate fully on their own. And as an intermediate step: The drones only have to be instructed when they have an encounter.

But I'd implement a special mode, just in case: MASSACRE - for the given time, kill every human in sight immediately and reject all communication outside of their swarm. Deployed deep within enemy territory, the damage they cause is limited to hostile forces.

Another layers of complexity come with hostile hacking attempts, communication disruption measures, other hostile drones, espionage and theft. For the software related aspects I'd need a team of ~10 people and 6-18 months. It would be of challenging difficulty in several domains, but the technology necessary already exists and works somewhat well enough.

I am a Libertarian Hungarian/German, but the extermination of communism has priority above all else. So if you want to invent new modern military level weaponry against CHINA, and have the funding, call me. ;)

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wootsat 5 points ago +5 / -0

Checks name. Backs out slowly.