A former Army Ranger who fought in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Ukraine said the fighting in the Eastern European country was much worse than that in those other countries. David Bramlette told The Daily Beast that he had air support, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance when he was in Iraq and Afghanistan.

“The worst day in Afghanistan and Iraq is a great day in Ukraine,” he said.

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    1 year ago

    Aaah, the occasional AI bro.

    The problem isn’t knowing roughly where mines could be, people are good at that and you don’t need an AI for this. The problem is knowing precisely where mines are, which is something AIs won’t help with.

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      Imagine being the grad student who has to go out and collect real training data because your advisor thought it might be interesting

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      1 year ago

      This.

      Even if some AI or algorithm could tell you that a certain area was less likely to be heavily mined, then what would prevent the opposing force from using similar tools to also identify the weak points?