Advances in Autonomous Technologies Sample Clauses

Advances in Autonomous Technologies. First, there are substantial advances in AI, which are making reliable autonomy increasingly viable.34 In turn, these developments are driven by a “perfect storm of [cheap] parallel computation, bigger data, and deeper algorithms”,35 which are revolutionising both civilian and military technologies. For example, AI systems can now beat humans at poker36 and Go,37 and they can even beat a real Top Gun pilot in 29 Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx, ‘Lethal Autonomous Systems and the Plight of the Non-Combatant’ (2013) 137 AISB Quarterly 4; Xxxxx Xxxxxxx, ‘Autonomous Weapons and International Humanitarian Law: Advantages, Open Technical Questions and Legal Issues to be Clarified’ (2014) 90 International Law Studies 308. 30 Ibid.; Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx, ‘Autonomous Weapon Systems and International Humanitarian Law: A Reply to the Critics’ (2013) Harvard National Security Journal Features 1. 31 Crootof (n 26). 32 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, ‘A Manual Adapting the Law of Armed Conflict to Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems’, Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx Center for Freedom, Special Report No. 183, (The Heritage Foundation, 7 April 2016) <xxxx://xxx-xxxxxxx.x0.xxxxxxxxx.xxx/2016/SR183.pdf> accessed 4 October 2018. 33 See 8.2, on the merits of producing a LOAC Manual on LAWS. 34 See Chapter 2.
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