Killer robots

Samuel often decides he wants to go walk to the place where the neighbors have happy hour in their driveway. He is an extrovert and loves the attention and his friend Leo lives next door. Tonight we wanted to go and one of the regular attendees of the happy hour had read the article about my photo exhibit. He was psyched for me and asked when it was. 

Leo wanted to play with Sam. Leo is three. Sam is 115. It is still fun to see they play. 

It is fun to be able to go to your wife, ask if you have a robot in the house, and have her find one. This is a robot puppet in front of the mural I saw in Roanoke. 

Days ago I started seeing headlines about Ukraine and robots but they looked stupid so I didn’t read them. So. Ukraine is working on killer robots. With AI that is all we need. I liked some of the Terminator movies. Oy. 

The destruction of the Ivanovets was the first time Ukraine was able to destroy a moving Russian warship outside of port. They destroyed it with six drones and sent a seventh to film it. Russia stole almost all of Ukraine’s warships when they invaded Crimea in 2014 so Ukraine needs drones to fight at sea. They were able to get close enough to the Ivanovets to destroy it, which is interesting, and there were no ships around to help the Ivanovets, even though it was relatively close to several Russian military bases, which is interesting.   

The hacker group Prana said it compromised the email servers of the Iranian company Sahara Thunder and got the production costs of the drones Iran has been selling Russia. We thought their advantage was they were ridiculously cheap ($20,000 each) but they cost a lot more than that, $200-300,000. This means that sometimes a person can get away from them by walking by themselves. One single person isn’t worth enough to waste a drone on.