One of the big surprised in this war for me is no news about usage of small drones with AI. Maybe there are some but still classified—but I would imagine that sophisticated opponents would now use massive amounts of them. They could be quite cheap and detecting people and weapons seems like pretty standard neural networks application. They could give the fighters full awareness of enemy moves with minimal attention requirements. I read about commercial drones being used, sometimes ones that require full immersion from the operator via goggles etc—drones with simple AI would be a game changer in this task.
I’m seeing quite some reports that the US is supplying loitering munition, specifically Switchblade drones, to Ukraine. Would that fall under your definition of “small drones with AI” or are you thinking of something else?
I must admit I am not an expert in this—but I would assume that the low hanging fruit is patrolling bots with AI for spotting the enemy. The advantage of using AI is two things—one is relieving people from paying attention to the video feeds, another one is that it would compress the communication needs—the bot would only need to communicate after it spots something interesting and do everything else autonomously.
I don’t know if the loitering munitions have such capabilities—wikipedia only says: “Switchblade has sensors to help spot enemy fighters ”—it might be classified.
One of the big surprised in this war for me is no news about usage of small drones with AI. Maybe there are some but still classified—but I would imagine that sophisticated opponents would now use massive amounts of them. They could be quite cheap and detecting people and weapons seems like pretty standard neural networks application. They could give the fighters full awareness of enemy moves with minimal attention requirements. I read about commercial drones being used, sometimes ones that require full immersion from the operator via goggles etc—drones with simple AI would be a game changer in this task.
I’m seeing quite some reports that the US is supplying loitering munition, specifically Switchblade drones, to Ukraine. Would that fall under your definition of “small drones with AI” or are you thinking of something else?
I must admit I am not an expert in this—but I would assume that the low hanging fruit is patrolling bots with AI for spotting the enemy. The advantage of using AI is two things—one is relieving people from paying attention to the video feeds, another one is that it would compress the communication needs—the bot would only need to communicate after it spots something interesting and do everything else autonomously.
I don’t know if the loitering munitions have such capabilities—wikipedia only says: “Switchblade has sensors to help spot enemy fighters ”—it might be classified.