Ukraine Uncovers NVIDIA Chip in Russian Drone, Turning It Into a Digital Predator Capable of Autonomous Targeting and Engagement

Well now we know how Nvidia got that $4 trillion and why GPUs are so scarce.

Great. Just what we need. AI controlled swarms of militarized drones.
- Here's to hoping their drivers perform the same as Nvidia drivers on Linux +/-15 years ago 🤞
  
  Google searches....."my drone works fine on first boot. After restart it seems really slow, nvidia driver killerdrone357 motherboard 2024". "Slow drone after nvidia install" . "slow drone nvidia driver update".
- Slaughter it's was a short film several years ago that predicted exactly this outcome.

What’s stopping Russia from importing gray market gaming devices and repurposing them for drones? How are these embargoes even supposed to work?
- They’re not necessarily meant to make it impossible, just more expensive.
- they can do it through turkey, CHINA and INDIA.

this is absolutely nVidia propaganda, holy shit @catty@lemmy.world

Wait, because it's using NVIDIA, it's a 'digital predator' and capable of 'autonomous targeting and engagement'? Uhm, any graphics chip would allow this.
This is publicity for NVIDIA.
- If it's using it for AI, then using nvidia makes sense for the CUDA support.
  
  And there's similar that runs on AMD / intel chips now that would require less power.

I don't understand how being smart and not needing human input makes these weapons more effective, the job of these is to fly to a set of coordinates and blow up, where does the supercomputer come in?
The issue is the drone figuring out where it is, smart methods can definitely aid the aircraft in evading and overwhelming Ukrainian defenses but if the shaheds are forced to fly high to avoid large caliber machine guns what set of new choices is a hypercomplex AI brain going to afford a flying wing bomb at high altitude?
What is there to outsmart about a volley of large caliber machine gun fire?
- Swarming. Especially in areas denied by electronic warfare. Currently the Shaheds are built for cost (and sanctions) reasons, and are ‘dumbfired’ at coordinates/an object. GPS and inertial navigation fly towards the target, but it doesn’t make any decisions. Launch, set orientation, hit waypoint, next orientation, next waypoint, repeat until final attack phase.
  What it can’t do is react. To anything: bad weather, Ukrainian EW/air defense, tall trees or buildings, other aircraft nearby, etc they just fly along their pre-programmed flight plan, providing any defenders with a predictable heading and airspeed to intercept and shoot at.
  Add onboard autonomous AI and Russia has a lot more options.
  The camera sees/microphone heard a bunch of tracer bullets flying past? Start evasive maneuvering, diving and changing speed. Much harder to hit an approaching/leaving aircraft that is also changing speed and/or direction.
  Other Shaheds launched earlier are getting signal loss from EW or shot down? The remaining craft can send and receive that info to all the others, and re-route the pack around that area of air defense.
  Image recognition of high value targets like HIMARS or Patriot/IRIS-T allows the Shaheds to immediately ditch their pre-programmed mission, and all focus fire on that newly discovered target instead of the original hospital or apartment building that Russia was targeting.
  Data sharing among Shaheds in flight can allow more efficient use, so instead of committing a dozen or so Shaheds to a single target like a military command post to ensure at least a few get through air defense and hit it, now they can communicate if it actually has been hit or not, and refocus/divert the remaining Shaheds in that wave.
  Essentially think of it as the difference between the dumbest box of rocks AI in a video game that doesn’t react, versus going player versus player online.
  
  I am sure these kinds of tactics will have impacts but it just doesn't make sense to me why this is going to revolutionize the effectiveness of these weapons.
- I don't understand how being smart and not needing human input makes these weapons more effective
  Probably a lot about humans not usually liking killing other humans. Humans are more likely to accept a surrender or, miss a target due lack of dedication to taking a life or intentionally miss.
  
  Probably a lot about humans not usually liking killing other humans. Humans are more likely to accept a surrender or, miss a target due lack of dedication to taking a life or intentionally miss.
  This is not how soldiers work for the most part though.