[dieortin]

The difference is that in those systems a human chose the target. Here, an AI does.

> but humans are more likely to make this kind of mistake more than a computer or AI model

Based on?

[Sharlin]

What "choosing the target" means has been fuzzy for a long time too. We've had beyond-visible-range missiles for a long time that are basically "fly to this grid square and find a target".

[Chu4eeno]

I don't think people realize how much horsepower are in missiles now.

The JSM has at least one multicore computer + IR camera + RF homing for target identification (plus GPS, terrain matching/following and inertial for navigation). It can automatically identify not only the best target (and recognize and ignore decoys etc), but also the optimal weak spots to impact.

[machomaster]

The stats of USA using human-guided drones to kill people. A civilian/military ratio and numbers was worse that 11.9.

Heck, check the American drone war crime video Wikileaks published. The one that made the USA so angry that it decided to attack and destroy the journalists.

[dieortin]

The USA tends to kill way more civilians than any other military in the world though, so I’m not sure it’s a good example.