U.S. Military Is Struggling to Deploy AI Weapons
Source: msn/WSJ
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An ambitious Pentagon plan to field thousands of cutting-edge drones to prepare for a potential conflict with China has fallen short of its goal, and the military has struggled to figure out how to use some of the systems in the field, according to people familiar with the matter. The effort, launched two years ago as a way to quickly buy low-cost autonomous weapons to counter China’s growing military capabilities, is now being shifted to a new organization over concerns it isn’t moving fast enough, the people said.
The move reflects frustrations over setbacks in the program known as Replicator, a signature effort of the Biden administration’s Pentagon that aimed to deliver thousands of air-, land-, and sea-based AI systems by August 2025. Then-Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks announced the program in 2023 with the promise of technology that would be “small, smart, cheap.”
While Hicks requested $1 billion over two years for Replicator, some lawmakers have called for billions of dollars more in spending, arguing the total needs to be far higher to ensure success.
Some Replicator systems have been unreliable, or were so expensive or slow to be manufactured they couldn’t be bought in the quantity needed, according to people familiar with the matter. The Pentagon has also struggled to find software that can successfully control large numbers of drones, made by different companies, working in coordination to find and potentially strike a target—a key to making the Replicator vision work.
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I don't know why they had this fantasy that this tech was somehow "mature". Seems someone was sold a bill of goods.
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is attempting to add "intelligence" to have it do something more than avoid hazards.
Look at the issues with those "self-driving" cars - and in their case, they are not driving "through a war zone" (although on some streets and highways, it probably seems like that 
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And I think what you just wrote is what I have been saying.
"AI" is NOT "ready for prime time" yet for this application. It's bad enough the made-up shit it has generated when lazy lawyers use it for stuff like legal briefs.
and insists on "American made". There is too much throwing babies out with bath water and too many egos in the Pentagon. 
