alt Hacker News> The overlap in the locations of Pokemon Go Player data and any active Drone heavy theaters of war is a tiny sliver.
Currently active theaters. And now there are detailed locations of our cities. We might not get killbots today but we will get pacificationbots.
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I remember reading in the news that Pokémon Go was quite popular in Palestine.
If GP has access to this dataset it would be interesting to know how sparse is the data in that area.
> And now there are detailed locations of our cities.
The Pokémon Go data is for small little islands around their points of interest (pokestops).
It’s not a detailed city map. The data is extremely sparse and only covers little tiny bubble around their sparse in game POIs.
The way it was represented as some sort of high resolution city map or world model was quite ridiculous.
Kill bots are used right now in Ukraine, including ones with no operator in the loop (too slow)
Optimistically, it sounds like the USA data could be used to assist USA domestic defense drones, fighting against an invading foreign nation.
Pessimistically, maybe democracy's days are numbered
Yep, the autocracies of the past only resolved when the ruling machinery needed something from the population. They needed farmers, workers, soldiers, etc.
There are clear parallels in the modern world of societies when the ruling machinery doesn't need those things from their population - petrostates. The people in these states tend to be viewed as subjects, not citizens. That's where we are headed
A corporate council of emperor kings with armies of pacification bots. The tiny sliver of window we have to ensure this doesn't happen is rapidly closing and there seems to be no movement toward ensuring that this doesn't culminate with the entire power of this new revolution in the hands of a small class of near demigods.
story broke yesterday that Ukraine deployed its first fully AI system, no human interaction, and it scored its first kill
i think killbots are absolutely a possibility, and very soon.
rightwing pundits and meme makers are already unironically quoting Zechariah 13:8
No, because they are different things for different purposes.
Visual navigation is prone to degradation. Keeping the "map" updated requires constant visits. (I know because my team worked on the patent for a method for updating said maps.)
Also Pacification bot would be run by the military who most lilkey have GPS.
Finally, For ground based bots, SLAM is actually more useful, rather than pre-built map based navigation.