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by Culonavirus 307 days ago
It's very much enough for drones tho... all you need is a tiny Jensen's chip, moped engine, some boom boom play-doh and you're ready to rock. No remote control needed.
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the AI part is simple. getting past GPS jamming and optical dazzlers so that drone AI can function is hard.
Drones are expensive. Solid six figures expensive. And they are used around or on things that are even more expensive. You wouldn't want ChatGPT piloting them.
Under $50k for a Geran-2 level drone.
An autonomous Flock drone costs $275k per year:

https://abc7chicago.com/post/oak-brook-police-department-lau...

Much more for an oil rig platform surveillance drone. And if it crashes into something important, more expensive still.