Robot swarms: will they bomb us or save us? | Features

Swarms have existed for millions of years in nature and now they’re evolving into silicon.
Labs across the US are developing robotic swarms of flying copters and tiny bots that can coordinate on their own. With robot swarms already in development for the US military, these bands of robots will only continue to grow.

The Guardian on YouTube:

[PacoOtis]

How did they manage to make something so interesting rather mundane?

[johnhendren]

At 3:38 the man says "good guys" maybe the good guys could turn out to be the bad guys in the end. It may be best to not pursue such technologies.

[lazur]

Intro: "When neurons 'talk' with billions of other neurons, consciousness arises." WRONG! To equate artificial intelligence with consciousness is absurd on its face: Billions of neurons, which each alone have _no_ consciousness whatsoever, somehow together become conscious? Impossible. Can they compute better together? Yes, of course, but some other factor must be added for consciousness to "arise", and that factor is the mind itself, a separate, non-physical concept. As our brain develops to better express the mind, observers confuse the two, but a new-born baby, with no computational or organizational ability whatsoever, is already conscious, just as a genius swarm of robot computers is NOT.