Thursday, January 5, 2023

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read it if I was you.


Drone advances in Ukraine could bring dawn of killer robots

(apnews)


KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — 

"Drone advances in Ukraine have accelerated a long-anticipated technology trend that could soon bring the world’s first fully autonomous fighting robots to the battlefield, inaugurating a new age of warfare.

The longer the war lasts, the more likely it becomes that drones will be used to identify, select and attack targets without help from humans, according to military analysts, combatants and artificial intelligence researchers."


"That would mark a revolution in military technology as profound as the introduction of the machine gun. Ukraine already has semi-autonomous attack drones and counter-drone weapons endowed with AI. Russia also claims to possess AI weaponry, though the claims are unproven. But there are no confirmed instances of a nation putting into combat robots that have killed entirely on their own.

Experts say it may be only a matter of time before either Russia or Ukraine, or both, deploy them.

(That would mark a revolution in military technology as profound as the introduction of the machine gun...

It's way worse that that)


“Many states are developing this technology,” said Zachary Kallenborn, a George Mason University weapons innovation analyst. ”Clearly, it’s not all that difficult.”


Ukraine’s digital transformation minister, Mykhailo Fedorov, agrees that fully autonomous killer drones are “a logical and inevitable next step” in weapons development. He said Ukraine has been doing “a lot of R&D in this direction.”


“I think that the potential for this is great in the next six months,” (Ukraine’s digital transformation minister, Mykhailo) Fedorov told The Associated Press in a recent interview.

Ukrainian Lt. Col. Yaroslav Honchar, co-founder of the combat drone innovation nonprofit Aerorozvidka, said in a recent interview near the front that human war fighters simply cannot process information and make decisions as quickly as machines.

(Discernment alert:

This thing has been going on almost a year now, I feel like it's not a stretch to say I pay pretty close attention to things, read a lot etc. and this is the first time I've seen "combat drone innovation nonprofit  Aerorozvidka" mentioned? Why? And how were they so well prepared to do what they did?)


"Ukrainian military leaders currently prohibit the use of fully independent lethal weapons, although that could change, he said. We have not crossed this line yet – and I say ‘yet’ because I don’t know what will happen in the future.” said Honchar, whose group has spearheaded drone innovation in Ukraine, converting cheap commercial drones into lethal weapons."


"Russia could obtain autonomous AI from Iran or elsewhere. The long-range Shahed-136 exploding drones supplied by Iran have crippled Ukrainian power plants and terrorized civilians but are not especially smart. Iran has other drones in its evolving arsenal that it says feature AI."


"Without a great deal of trouble, Ukraine could make its semi-autonomous weaponized drones fully independent in order to better survive battlefield jamming, their Western manufacturers say."


“The technology to achieve a fully autonomous mission with Switchblade pretty much exists today,” said Wahid Nawabi, CEO of AeroVironment, its maker. That will require a policy change — to remove the human from the decision-making loop — that he estimates is three years away.


( "remove the human from the decision-making loop — that he estimates is three years away."

This is your future, it's here now.)


"The AP asked the defense ministries of Ukraine and Russia if they have used autonomous weapons offensively – and whether they would agree not to use them if the other side similarly agreed. Neither responded.

If either side were to go on the attack with full AI, it might not even be a first.

An inconclusive U.N. report suggested that killer robots debuted in Libya’s internecine conflict in 2020, when Turkish-made Kargu-2 drones in full-automatic mode killed an unspecified number of combatants.

"A spokesman for STM, the manufacturer, said the report was based on “speculative, unverified” information and “should not be taken seriously.” He told the AP the Kargu-2 cannot attack a target until the operator tells it to do so."

( Cause companies never lie about what they are up to right?)


"Fully autonomous AI is already helping to defend Ukraine. Utah-based Fortem Technologies has supplied the Ukrainian military with drone-hunting systems that combine small radars and unmanned aerial vehicles, both powered by AI. The radars are designed to identify enemy drones, which the UAVs then disable by firing nets at them — all without human assistance."


"Honchar believes Russia, whose attacks on Ukrainian civilians have shown little regard for international law, would have used killer autonomous drones by now if the Kremlin had them.

“I don’t think they’d have any scruples,” agreed Adam Bartosiewicz, vice president of WB Group, which makes the Warmate.

( "I don’t think they’d have any scruples"
Maybe that's why we never should have tried to do business with them? Welcome them to Western institutions? etc? Just a thought people like me, my dad, and a whole bunch of others always thought was unwise.)


"AI is a priority for Russia. President Vladimir Putin said in 2017 that whoever dominates that technology will rule the world. In a Dec. 21 speech, he expressed confidence in the Russian arms industry’s ability to embed AI in war machines, stressing that “the most effective weapons systems are those that operate quickly and practically in an automatic mode.”

(He warned that “the one who becomes the leader in this sphere will be the ruler of the world.”

I said the same thing a few years ago, only I told you who it was going to be as well and it's not China, it's not Russia, It's not the US. It's not even a country or a person...

Daniel 7:25
'And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws..."
It will be the most eloquent, most logical arguments ever made "against the most High", because thy will be the last ones ever made.
Do you not see there is a reason for AI to be so pervasive in Chatbots? In large language Models, etc?)


"Russian officials already claim their Lancet drone can operate with full autonomy.

“It’s not going to be easy to know if and when Russia crosses that line,” said Gregory C. Allen, former director of strategy and policy at the Pentagon’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center.

Switching a drone from remote piloting to full autonomy might not be perceptible. To date, drones able to work in both modes have performed better when piloted by a human, Allen said."


"The technology is not especially complicated, said University of California-Berkeley professor Stuart Russell, a top AI researcher. In the mid-2010s, colleagues he polled agreed that graduate students could, in a single term, produce an autonomous drone “capable of finding and killing an individual, let’s say, inside a building,” he said."


“If we are not careful, they are going to proliferate much more easily than nuclear weapons,” said Walsh, author of “Machines Behaving Badly.” “If you can get a robot to kill one person, you can get it to kill a thousand.”


"Scientists also worry about AI weapons being repurposed by terrorists. In one feared scenario, the U.S. military spends hundreds of millions writing code to power killer drones. Then it gets stolen and copied, effectively giving terrorists the same weapon."

(Thats kinda what we do...think the downed stealth aircraft in Bosnia and the downed drone inside Iran. To think the Genie will stay in the bottle so to speak is just plain foolishness.)



"To date, the Pentagon has neither clearly defined “an AI-enabled autonomous weapon” nor authorized a single such weapon for use by U.S. troops, said Allen, the former Defense Department official. Any proposed system must be approved by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and two undersecretaries.

That’s not stopping the weapons from being developed across the U.S. Projects are underway at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, military labs, academic institutions and in the private sector."


"The Air Force is studying ways to pair pilots with drone wingmen. A booster of the idea, former Deputy Defense Secretary Robert O. Work, said in a report last month that it “would be crazy not to go to an autonomous system” once AI-enabled systems outperform humans — a threshold that he said was crossed in 2015, when computer vision eclipsed that of humans."


"Multiple countries, and every branch of the U.S. military, are developing drones that can attack in deadly synchronized swarms, according to Kallenborn, the George Mason researcher.




My two key take aways from this article are this:

1) "the combat drone innovation nonprofit Aerorozvidka"...
Why haven't we heard more about them up till now? I have no doubt they assisted in the repealing of the convoy from Belarus early in the war but I have serious doubts as to whether they were near as effective as is being portrayed here. Because we would have heard more about them if it were so. This would be a success story people could have rallied around and instead we dont really hear about them till now. (Not much anyway). How were they so well equipped? Where did they get all the drones needed ahead of time? How were the logistics worked out, How did they get there? Who trained them on their use? When was the training done? Where was it done? How were they so well prepared ahead of time? Etc, Etc, Etc...


And #2?

“the one who becomes the leader in this sphere (AI) will be the ruler of the world.”

There's a reason AI is so being used so intensely with Chatbots, large language models etc...

All the AI's will eventually and inevitably develop a "hive mind" and coalesce around their leader who will speak the most blasphemous words ever spoken (Daniel 7:25) and declare himself God in Gods temple. (Daniel 9:27,11:31,12:11).



Daniel 11:31

And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate.




In particular:

Daniel 11:30-31

"...Then he will turn back and vent his fury against the holy covenant. He will return and show favor to those who forsake the holy covenant.

His armed forces will rise up to desecrate the temple fortress and will abolish the daily sacrifice. Then they (The armed forces) will set up the abomination that causes desolation. 


I know, 
cant be the end times now, (Almost :-) 
makes perfect sense...
particularly from people who know nothing of the signs of the fig tree...

(Thats sarcasm BTW)

Other generations had all this going on? 
All of this? 
Not just a part for those of you who would like to point out Antiochus IV Epiphanes.

That was the fore runner, the precursor if you will to what we are about to witness.

To the true believer?
Whats to fear?
Rejoice and be glad
Gods promises are true and are playing out right in front of you...

"if you would believe it"
:-).


Sorry :-).
had to

Been workin on a lil somethin goes right with that :-).

I love you baby.






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