{"id":73948,"date":"2017-11-26T20:42:32","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T04:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/russian-weapons-maker-to-build-ai-directed-guns"},"modified":"2017-12-02T12:01:31","modified_gmt":"2017-12-02T20:01:31","slug":"russian-weapons-maker-to-build-ai-directed-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/russian-weapons-maker-to-build-ai-directed-guns","title":{"rendered":"Russian Weapons Maker To Build AI-Directed Guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-XiCUiF9Ges?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Kalashnikov\u2019s upcoming product shows how the US and Russia are on wildly different paths to autonomy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The maker of the famous <\/strong> AK &minus;47 rifle is building \u201ca range of products based on neural networks,\u201d including a \u201cfully automated combat module\u201d that can identify and shoot at its targets. That\u2019s what Kalashnikov spokeswoman Sofiya Ivanova <a href=\"http:\/\/tass.com\/defense\/954894\">told<\/a> TASS, a Russian government information agency last week. It\u2019s the latest illustration of how the U.S. and Russia differ as they develop artificial intelligence and robotics for warfare.<\/p>\n<p>The Kalashnikov \u201ccombat module\u201d will consist of a gun connected to a console that constantly crunches image data \u201cto identify targets and make decisions,\u201d Ivanova told TASS. A Kalashnikov photo that ran with the TASS piece showed a turret-mounted weapon that appeared to fire rounds of 25mm or so.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/technology\/2017\/07\/russian-weapons-maker-build-ai-guns\/139452\/?oref=DefenseOneFB&utm_content=bufferc6487&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer\">http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/technology\/2017\/07\/russian-weapons...ign=buffer<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kalashnikov\u2019s upcoming product shows how the US and Russia are on wildly different paths to autonomy. The maker of the famous AK \u221247 rifle is building \u201ca range of products based on neural networks,\u201d including a \u201cfully automated combat module\u201d that can identify and shoot at its targets. That\u2019s what Kalashnikov spokeswoman Sofiya Ivanova told [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":440,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74092,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73948\/revisions\/74092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}