The article is quite barebones (probably because the military isn’t sharing much info, although I could be wrong), but I’m assuming what happened is that they hooked the decision making up a glorified counting machine, told it to count to the highest number, and then some lunkhead set important things like “kill friendlies” as “-100” instead of “-10,000,000,” or whatever.
If that’s how it happened, it wouldn’t make the AI itself scary, but it sure would make the incompetence of the people running it terrifying.
The article is quite barebones (probably because the military isn’t sharing much info, although I could be wrong), but I’m assuming what happened is that they hooked the decision making up a glorified counting machine, told it to count to the highest number, and then some lunkhead set important things like “kill friendlies” as “-100” instead of “-10,000,000,” or whatever.
If that’s how it happened, it wouldn’t make the AI itself scary, but it sure would make the incompetence of the people running it terrifying.
AI: ok, so I need to kill 215 friendlies to underflow the counter, got it.
The Ghandi Classic.