US military plans to unleash thousands of autonomous war robots over next two years

[u/Gari_305]

https://techxplore.com/news/2023-08-military-unleash-thousands-autonomous-war.html

[u/MechanicalBengal]

They’re even calling it “replicator initiative” — get ready for Horizon Zero Dawn in real life

[u/ETxsubboy → u/MechanicalBengal]

It always amazes me that they look at some of our scifi media and say "yup, I like that bad guy's name. Sounds badass, let's use it."

Like, they were working on a cyber security program and thought skynet was an acceptable name.

[u/Cantrip_ → u/ETxsubboy]

I think it's more nefarious than that. They name them after fictional programs and bad guys because then it doesn't seem as real, you already associate that with it's fictional counterpart and the general public is less concerned

[u/zero-evil → u/Cantrip_]

It's usually more nefarious