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« on: February 03, 2010, 10:54:08 AM »
I know that we have hit on this in the past with little known info but today I found this article that makes seem like the Army wants this to be come reality instead of just on paper for now.

http://www.livescience.com/technology/future-soldiers-100202.html
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« Reply #1 on: February 03, 2010, 02:26:00 PM »
The exoskeletons have been talked about. I give them about 10-15 years before they start popping up on the battlefield.
The other stuff sounds cool though. AI buddies..sound familiar...I wonder where I've heard it before? Tongue
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« Reply #2 on: February 03, 2010, 04:54:54 PM »
AI buddies and the brain boosters...

lame...they should put money to where it really needs to go and not some supersoldier crap no one probably won't see in our lifetime or no one's lifetime at all.
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« Reply #3 on: February 04, 2010, 04:42:42 AM »
Brain boosters are actually quite real. They're just also highly unreliable in drug form and bulky as hell in machine form, but they do work.
But yes, it would be nice to make sure all the troops have properly functioning body armor rather than pursue handheld laser weapons and force fields. Yes, DARPA is funding energy shield research.
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« Reply #4 on: February 04, 2010, 09:54:06 PM »
I just got my copy of Air Force magazine today, and an article about laser weapons being used to shoot down UAVs was in there.  The future seems to be here already. 
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« Reply #5 on: February 04, 2010, 10:25:40 PM »
Anyone ever heard of the Orion Project? It was a scientific venture that sought to use atomic bombs as a propellant for spacecraft and the military helped to axe it by presenting it to President Kennedy in the perverted "space battleship" format.
Can you imagine if Kennedy had actually bought into it and neglected to sign the TESTBAN Treaty? Space battleships.
It should be mentioned that while it sounds insane, it worked and it was VERY close to reality when the TESTBAN Treaty was signed, which effectively killed it off.
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« Reply #6 on: February 05, 2010, 06:06:28 AM »
IMO, the exoskeleton project can be applied to do much more than just warfare. it would likely revolutionize the construction industry, make some construction vehicles which use fossil fuels obsolete and probably more than just that. they could also likely be used for rehabilitation in the form of resistance training. they could even possibly take the place of bulky wheelchairs.

the AI thing I'm a bit skeptical about happening anytime soon though. while what they're proposing is very amazing and useful, it would require billions if not trillions of lines of code. if i remember right, the tic-tac-toe game i had to program in C++ was around 800-1200 lines of code. hell, just making it be able to prioritize information would be a hellhole in itself. there's so many factors that affect how a battle pans out, enemy force strength, ally force strength, terrain, fortified emplacements, weather, natural hazards, artificial hazards, ambush points, and probably more that i cant think of since I'm tired. it'd likely take a processor at least 5 years ahead of what we have now to be able to process all input data to make a viable decision before a situation can possibly turn for the worst.
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« Reply #7 on: February 05, 2010, 07:33:16 AM »
Heh, and what about de-bugging?  Tongue

I'm sure the processor/compiler wouldn't have the slightest problem in executing the code wicked fast, the but the probability is way high that there's an error somewhere in that amount of code...and then programmers have to go inside all that, hunt down the bug and fix it. Ugh, not my cup 'o tea.

Yeah, Orion was badass. There's videos of it on youtube, although the test & eval demonstrations are with conventional explosives. Pretty impressive to watch, still. The practicality of it seems feasible. And in space, there's little to no resistance to stop that thing from going the theorized velocity. Imagine....the Voyager probes going that fast. We'd learn so much more in fractions of the time. Yeah, unfortunate that we can't think around the limitations.
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« Reply #8 on: February 05, 2010, 09:01:25 AM »
And hey, DARPA has a free smartphone app that's as close to a 'dumb A.I.' as you can get.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/darpa-based-siri-virtual-assistant-hits-the-app-store-smartphon/
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