The U.S. military is funding a project to integrate human with artificial intelligence.?

Question

Translation: We're fielding cyborgs. Human Nature's prediction: The next step will be to remove the human component from the battlefield and let machines provide the sensor mobility as well as the information processing...what are your thought's

Answer 1

You got that off of Slate. I read it earlier today, and frankly the article writer's take on it was generalistic, sensationalistic, and just plain silly. No one is attempting to field "cyborgs"; the soldier is still the most valuable asset on the field of battle, hands down. Anyone with any military experience would tell you that. I might suggest you take what you read on the net or see on TV with a grain of salt; it's a well-known fact that the media's full of it.

Answer 2

If it ever happens it will be the worse thing possible for the world. Make warfare safe and bloodless for some one and who will stop them? Make warfare itself that clean and why not fight constantly? One thing about war is that it is bloody and awful enough to make us think about it for a while before we get int another one. Iraq is not a war it is a low/mid level conflict, Vietnam was a high/mid level conflict-the last war was World War Two and it was bloody enough for us to keep out of another one for a while. For those saying the terrible cost of Iraq, and I sa one life is a high loss, but the fact is it is over 4 years having 3less then 4,000 dead compared to Vietnam tat averaged 500 a year much less World War Two when that was a daily count many times is from a purely military and statistical stand point a huge leap in terminology. But to answer your question if one side develops that type of system it will use it to suppress the rest sooner or later and everyone develops it then we will constantly at war. It will be a black day for humans.

Answer 3

I don't think we'll ever completely remove the human element from the battlefield until a full, robust, and truly sentient AI exists.

Until then however, you have things like the Future Force Warriors ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Force_Warrior ) and the BLEEX program ( http://bleex.me.berkeley.edu/bleex.htm ).

We are indeed integrating machine and man more and more, but utnil there is a fully sentient AI, humans will never be completely removed from war. Machines can not act independantly of humans.

Answer 4

Keep up.
We already have remote controlled grunts.
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2004/12/65885
And we have remote controlled airplanes that can spy and can do bombing runs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RQ-1_Predator
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/02/08/predator.video/index.html

Both are operated by people sitting miles away in a truck looking like they are playing a video game. And the military supports a contest every year to replace the human part of those.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge

Answer 5

I see common sense is not very common. But robots/artificial intelligence are no match to humans - we created them.

Answer 6

They won't each much, they won't take up much space to sleep etc, you don't have to pay them a wage like we have to pay our military men, they won't die, if they get injured you just put them back together. We won't have a nation in mourning for how many are killed. Sounds pretty good to me even if it does cost a few bucks.

Answer 7

Not a sci-fi movie.. I mean, look at robots, they cost millions, move really slowly and cant do much.. Imagine them fighting!

Answer 8

That'd be great. As long as we don't give the tech to our enemies.

Answer 9

They are probably doing it because the current crop of recruits from the Generation (D)umb and Generation (S)tupid... don't HAVE any intelligence.

Answer 10

No that's just weird.