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18 hours ago, tater said:
I was hoping for some radiation-related "camera interference" to highlight just how bad it would be to sit between three hot NTRs...
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It is possible to design a munition that converts its impact energy into an EMP?
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47 minutes ago, SunlitZelkova said:
Is Yenisei going to be reusable? I saw that on Reddit today, but I don’t know if it is old news or not.
It's a cluster of Soyuz-5s, which have no sign of reusability in the pipeline.
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15 hours ago, SunlitZelkova said:
That is what we call "backpedalling".
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4 hours ago, K^2 said:
I've had a drink at the bar tonight that's been advertised as invented by ChatGPT. The bartending career is 100% safe for now.
On that topic of that "simulation," somebody commented that when military says "simulation," they mean a LARP, and I can't get over that.
No kidding, I too was wondering just how "abstract" the simulation was. Were they just using ChatGPT that was told to narrate as a drone?
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7 hours ago, CatastrophicFailure said:
A reminder that sooner or later “space archaeologist” will be a thing… and they’ll be cataloging a pile of plushies.
Uhm...
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OK, jokes over.
QuoteAs might be expected artificial intelligence (AI) and its exponential growth was a major theme at the conference, from secure data clouds, to quantum computing and ChatGPT. However, perhaps one of the most fascinating presentations came from Col Tucker ‘Cinco’ Hamilton, the Chief of AI Test and Operations, USAF, who provided an insight into the benefits and hazards in more autonomous weapon systems. Having been involved in the development of the life-saving Auto-GCAS system for F-16s (which, he noted, was resisted by pilots as it took over control of the aircraft) Hamilton is now involved in cutting-edge flight test of autonomous systems, including robot F-16s that are able to dogfight. However, he cautioned against relying too much on AI noting how easy it is to trick and deceive. It also creates highly unexpected strategies to achieve its goal.
He notes that one simulated test saw an AI-enabled drone tasked with a SEAD mission to identify and destroy SAM sites, with the final go/no go given by the human. However, having been ‘reinforced’ in training that destruction of the SAM was the preferred option, the AI then decided that ‘no-go’ decisions from the human were interfering with its higher mission – killing SAMs – and then attacked the operator in the simulation. Said Hamilton: “We were training it in simulation to identify and target a SAM threat. And then the operator would say yes, kill that threat. The system started realising that while they did identify the threat at times the human operator would tell it not to kill that threat, but it got its points by killing that threat. So what did it do? It killed the operator. It killed the operator because that person was keeping it from accomplishing its objective.”
He went on: “We trained the system – ‘Hey don’t kill the operator – that’s bad. You’re gonna lose points if you do that’. So what does it start doing? It starts destroying the communication tower that the operator uses to communicate with the drone to stop it from killing the target.”
This example, seemingly plucked from a science fiction thriller, mean that: “You can't have a conversation about artificial intelligence, intelligence, machine learning, autonomy if you're not going to talk about ethics and AI” said Hamilton.
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That is a truly impressive collection of miscellania.
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16 hours ago, Kerb24 said:
So tomorrow I'll (hopefully) be able to fly a model plane for the first time! Now, I need to charge the batteries for it, and the USB charger, for some reason, when plugged into my laptop, makes my keyboard stop working!
Let go, Luke!
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For their postgrad degree, Gagarin and a host of other cosmonauts worked on a spaceplane design dubbed "Buran-68".
SpoilerPic is actually unrelated - the model can be found in Gagarin's memorial office at Zhukovsky and it's clearly too elongated to be a Shuttle lookalike and has a ventral stabilizer - but I accept no liability for the current state of your screen and keyboard.
The actual Buran-68/YuG is this:
Yes, he had been hanging out with the Spiral team and Belotserkovsky the grid fin guy.
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14 hours ago, magnemoe said:
also it don't have an gun so not an gunship
The 30 mm is right next to the stenciling. I'll admit it's barely visible here due to the shadows.
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Anton Frolov, Einstein Cross
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Back in the 1990s, Kamov ran in Turkey's gunship competition with a specially developed Ka-50-2.
And it had a name:
They say it just meant 'warrior' and the politician of today was actually in jail at the time for being so far in opposition to the powers-that-be.
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Shower thought: this whole "injection" thing is really just a Jedi mind trick, especially when these bots have really short prompts.
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6 hours ago, steve9728 said:
Chengdu Aircraft Design Institue of AVIC (the place where J-20 was designed from) has applied for a pretty strange patent: "A twin-engine tandem vertical take-off and landing aircraft" (CN219056579U):
"The utility model patent belongs to the technical field of aircraft general design, and specifically relates to a twin-engine tandem vertical take-off and landing aircraft. It includes: fuselage, upper air inlet, front engine, manifold, left and right nozzle, abdominal air inlet rear engine and tail nozzle. The upper air inlet is set at the back of the aircraft. The tail of the upper air inlet is connected to the manifold inlet. The manifold is divided into two in a 'trouser leg shape'. The two outlets of the manifold are connected to the left and right nozzles respectively. Front engine is provided at the rear of the cockpit. Abdominal inlet is provided at the jaw of the fuselage and is connected to the rear engine inlet through the abdominal inlet. The rear engine is connected to the tail nozzle at the rear and is provided at the rear of the fuselage. The tail nozzle is provided at the rear of the fuselage and is located between the two drogue tails"
"The patent uses two conventional engines in a tandem front-to-back layout, dividing the front part of the engine jet into two paths, and forming a "three-point support" type of lift with the rear vectoring nozzle to achieve vertical or short take-off. The two engines work simultaneously during flight, avoiding the previous situation where one engine was not working and there was ‘dead weight’. The three nozzles can be deflected for manoeuvring as required during flight." It also mentioned that the left, right, and rear nozzles can each be deflected at an angle between 0° and 90° as required to achieve manoeuvres in the air under the flight control system in conjunction with the aircraft rudders.
Need to be remind that is the patents doesn't mean particularly serious "I'm going to do this stuff from now on!", but rather "Hey guys, I got an idea". I feel a bit less serious about this to be honest
Well, English Electric Lightning had one engine atop the other, so this isn't entirely incredible...
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1 minute ago, K^2 said:
This is going to be a huge problem in the nearest future.
I believe this was publicized more than half a year ago.
So, by all likelihood, this is already happening and we just don't know about it.
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16 hours ago, steve9728 said:
I will recommend:
Need to say that I really like the plotting of this game.
The game is fundamentally problematic for this discussion because it uses AI as a vehicle instead of considering it as a thing in itself. And several endings outright upturn the premise in a way I derive cynical satisfaction from.
And with this we come to the broader negative tendency to anthropomorphize AI. Much of the scaremongering chatter is so horrifically low-quality precisely because it falls into the trap "AI designed to mimic humans talks like a himan, therefore it's self-aware".
Don't flatter yourself, fellow meatbags. We are very to emulate.
What I fear more is the exponential growth of generated information that only emulates prior information, as well as the spread of "AI hallucinations" as accepted wisdom. An ever so greater corpus of our noosphere will be made up of information produced by that which cannot read the text it writes or see the picture it draws.
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Well, this ain't a joke or an urban legend...
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2 hours ago, JoeSchmuckatelli said:
Still remember thag critter from the BBC series.
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9 hours ago, SunlitZelkova said:
At 300 meters height: city and underground infrastructure, power plants, parking, at 1000 meters height: residential areas and shops. At 3,500 meters height: offices, hotels. At 6,000 meters: administrative buildings and leisure facilities. At 9,000 meters, factories and scientific research facilities. At the top: a solar energy collector and a space development center.
...oxygen masks not included?
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41 minutes ago, kerbiloid said:
"Call her Natasha..."
You should start with the original reference.
"Nat, you asleep?"
"It's 6 AM already, Natasha!"
"Get up, we've already tipped everything over" (the stock market crashed, there is a pandemic, insert as necessary)
"We've crashed absolutely everything, Nat, honest!"
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I'm not sure it would. The media seems to have given up on fact-checking and spell-checking their imterns for a while now. Labor expenditure would still drop manifold in either case.