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Do You Speak Droidish? The Pentagon Is Spending Millions On A Language For Drones (www.forbes.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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“It lets R2D2 talk to C3P0," Keven Gambold, Droidish’s mastermind and the CEO of government contractor Unmanned Experts, explained to Forbes, recalling the iconic robot duo from Star Wars.

When researchers or government contractors crack the code, these advanced drone systems will launch together, work out amongst themselves how best to achieve their goals and land in tandem — with human pilots intervening only should something go awry. Spurred on by Ukraine’s extensive use of drones to defend against Russian invasion, and by fears of China’s advancing technological prowess, America’s best-funded agency is spending big across research labs, academia and AI tech companies to ensure the U.S. is at the bleeding edge of next-generation drone warfare.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Amazing how easy it is to sell the US Gov new toys it doesn't need.

"...ensure the U.S. is at the bleeding edge of next-generation drone warfare."

Translation:

Pay threw the nose for expensive proprietary software that will eventually be made obsolete by it's open-source equivalent.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

From a security perspective would open source be less secure? I'm legit curious about this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If your software relies on being closed source for security, you have no security. It's that simple.

Having your thing open source enables people from pointing out it's issues, which enables people to fix those issues. Of course, OSS can still have issues, but they can be discovered more easily.

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