digg

Facebook Connect Join Digg About
See the original image at livescience.com

Will the U.S. Have a Droid Army?

livescience.com — The U.S. military may be 30 percent robotic by the year 2020 according to Doug Few and Bill Smart of Washington University in St. Louis. "When the military says 'robot' they mean everything from self-driving trucks up to what you would conventionally think of as a robot. You would more accurately call them autonomous systems rather than robots,"

Who dugg this?

Digg DudeWhat is Digg?

Digg is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. Digg surfaces the best stuff as submitted and voted on by the community. Take the Tour to learn more.

6 Comments

show profanity settings
expand all
  • inactive, on 08/06/2008, -0/+4My CPU is a neural net processor, a learning computer.
  • morningmatters, on 08/06/2008, -0/+4The technology will probably get there but the risk is too great? Nevermind AI self awareness which won't happen anytime soon, one person who can hack from within can turn the tide in a war if we rely so much on automated machines.
  • nunodomonte, on 08/06/2008, -0/+3"The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do". B. F. Skinner

    "Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms". Groucho Marx
  • ordig, on 08/06/2008, -0/+2Or they could just start cloning genetically engineered super soldiers, or Meat Droids if you will.
  • riverrunner, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1roger roger
  • sidianmsjones, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0One word - Terminator.

  • Add a Comment

    Login or register to comment!
    Or, sign-in super fast with your Facebook account ...

© Digg Inc. 2009 — Content created and posted by Digg users is dedicated to the public domain | Terms of Use Updated | Privacy Policy
DIGG, DIGG IT, DUGG, DIGG THIS, Digg graphics, logos, designs, page headers, button icons, scripts, and other service names are the trademarks of Digg Inc.