US company’s AI lets Ukraine’s cheap kamikaze drones track targets on their own

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乌克兰的“神风”无人机又升级了！这次最惊人的是，单价仅400美元的Shrike无人机，装上美国公司Auterion开发的AI系统后，能自己追踪并锁定移动目标，不再需要操作员全程手控。战场上，士兵只需把无人机飞到目标区域，选定目标后“一键切换”，无人机就会自动追踪撞击，像长了眼睛一样不炸不罢休。以前这种便宜的“自杀式无人机”全靠人遥控，现在AI让它们拥有了自主作战能力。接下来几个月，将有五万架这样的智能无人机交付乌军，这会让冲突的对抗方式发生深刻变化。同时，这项技术也预示着未来智能化战争离我们越来越近，无人装备的自主决策能力，可能会让未来战场变得更加残酷和难以预测。

Ukrainian drone operators have destroyed many Russian armored vehicles on the ground and even military helicopters in midair using $400 Shrike drones with explosive payloads. Now thousands of such drones are getting upgraded with an AI system capable of autonomously tracking and homing in on moving targets. In mid-July, the Ukrainian military began receiving Shrike drones made by the Ukrainian company SkyFall equipped with AI-powered autonomy hardware and software developed by the US company Auterion. The companies plan to deliver 50,000 drones equipped with Auterion’s Skynode S strike kits in the coming months. That allows human operators to manually fly the Shrike first-person view (FPV) drones into a battlefield area, designate a target up to half a mile away and then “flip the switch to turn it into fire-and-forget terminal guidance mode,” Lorenz Meier, co-founder and CEO of Auterion, told Ars.Read full article Comments