AI controlled drone swarms

Often the phrase “drone swarm” means multiple drones being used at once. But in a true drone swarm, the drones communicate and collaborate, making collective decisions about where to go and what to do. In a militarized drone swarm, instead of 10 or 100 distinct drones, the swarm forms a single, integrated weapon system guided by some form of artificial intelligence.
In recent years, the threat of drone swarms has grown alongside their increasing sophistication. In 2016, the Department of Defense launched 103 Perdix drones out of three F/A-18 Super Hornets. The drones operated using a “collective brain,” gathering into various formations, flying across a test battlefield, and reforming into new configurations. Notably, the system was designed by students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. If drone swarms are simple enough students can make them, conflict zones across the world can expect to see them soon.
As drone swarms scale into super-swarms of 1,000 or even up to a million drones, no human could plausibly have meaningful control. The reality is that virtually no current counter-drone systems are designed for counter-swarm operations.
Israel’s Drone Swarm Over Gaza Should Worry Everyone

 

Weapons are the single largest manufactured export in the world. For Israel to exist, they must produce weapons, and test them.

 

Still, these drones generally rely on some form of data transfer to function, the sort of thing that an emp pulse can disrupt and possibly even fry the drones.
Enough emitters placed in a sensitive area would at least secure that space

 

The Pentagon has its own EMP proof chips that can survive a nuclear bomb, but they still need to work on producing an AI chip. IBM's goal has been to put the equivalent of a human brain in something the size of a coffee can, running at maybe 3 watts, that is made of cheap memristors that are self-healing. In other words, all they care about is how cheap, silent, and indestructible it can be. Already, its easy enough to provide a flying drone with significant autonomy, so people on the ground just push a button, and a semi-truck loaded with 40,000 drones has them attack anything living. Their cameras can tell who you are, just by the way you walk, and a single gigapixel camera in orbit, can read every gum wrapper on the sidewalk of Manhattan.

Its what the military calls an "Attention Getter", and if a few hundred drones follow you around town, it will get your attention. Drones are a sign that we are overdue for the next scientific revolution, so hold onto your hats. These drones can coordinate their activities, even if you flood the radio waves with static. Most people have no real clue what is "embedded AI", but you will learn, just how much intelligence they can squeeze onto a chip.

 

Ummmm... aren't these two things about the same size?

I mean a mortician can put a human brain in a coffee can if he needed to.

 

I can rest easy, knowing that I can always rely upon you for mental images like "a human brain in a coffee can."

 

Just be careful when you make coffee tomorrow.

 

IBM's goal is to start out with a normal size human brain in a coffee can, and see if a pea brain can do the same job.