Cars That Think
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This article is part of our special report on AI, “ The Great AI Reckoning.”. That same year we started deploying the first of thousands of robots in Afghanistan and then Iraq to be used to help troops disable improvised explosive devices. This article appears in the October 2021 print issue as "A Human in the Loop.".
Cars That Think
JUNE 29, 2022
The second instrument was a highly experimental Multispectral Scanner System (MSS) designed by Virginia T. The MSS, though, operated until 6 January 1978, outliving its design life by four and a half years and recording more than 300,000 images. Everyone assumed the camera would be the workhorse of the mission.
Cars That Think
AUGUST 21, 2022
And yet who better to design the next great leap in technology than men remade by technology themselves? 60,000 amputations were performed) inaugurated the modern prosthetics era in the United States, thanks to federal funding and a wave of design patents filed by entrepreneurial prosthetists. As Verne understood, the U.S.
Cars That Think
APRIL 27, 2024
Editor’s note: This article is adapted from the author’s book War Virtually: The Quest to Automate Conflict, Militarize Data, and Predict the Future (University of California Press, published in paperback April 2024). In a 2015 article , U.S. The Reaper [bottom] is designed for both high-altitude surveillance and destroying targets.
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