It struck me just how much humans depend on "reactions" from animals and other humans, to get their way. The world champion who lost to an AI opponent in Starcraft (I think it was) remarked just how much he was "relying on unforced errors" from his opponents when he was trying to "overwhelm" them aggressively with slightly superior forces: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03298-6 And same with poker players heads up vs AI https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/18/magazine/ai-technology-poker.html ... in fact that AI seems to be able to predict what the humans would do before they could even think of it!
Some species, such as the Wolf Spider, don't behave as you would expect when you try to attack it, etc. and it's decentralized. That's just a tiny taste of what AI would be capable of.
I'm sitting at a table and there are some flies landing on my food. They fly away as soon as I move to shoo them. This is what gave me the idea to write this post.
AI can give perfect auto-aim to robot dogs, so they can just destroy, say, 30 humans at once with one bullet per human.
Now imagine a much smaller AI. Imagine an AI that moves stochastically, but also sees you swatting it faster than a fly. But unlike a fly, it doesn't fly away in fear. In fact, it's designed to annoy you as much as possible. One fly could evade a whole room full of people trying to catch it.
Now imagine what SWARMS of flies and dogs can do. You try to "scare" them, shoo them away, they don't behave as you want. You try to capture them, they evade it. You finally hit one, it just gets back up. And so on.
Guns and conventional weaponry would be entirely useless against swarms of drones, especially if they are completely decentralized and don't have a self-preservation instinct at all:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3N58QwhRtg
And the cost could come down really fast, they already beat human drone pilots in racing, and here all they have to do is avoid collisions while all zeroing in on a target:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-2tpwW0kmU
Do you think there would be any way to protect against thousands of random actors programming these drones anonymously?
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