Because low cost drones have been used since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, they are trained to use them. Also the quantity used is way higher than in other conflicts, lowering the price is more important.
There is also a need in adaptability. Delivering parts that meets a specific demand at a specific time is where 3D printing and diy drones shine and it's important in Ukraine frontline.
There is also a system in the way Ukraine is doing war that favorise diy drone. Basically, each units have a budget and you get more if your unit kill Russian soldiers/equipment. This in return give you access to more advanced drones.
I think today the drones are quite well equipped and the diy versions are less present.
It's a paper done by a phd, so it's part of a larger study that is probably more interesting than this paper.https://etheses.dur.ac.uk/15828/ (I'm not the author).
But the results and use cases seems to be legit to me. Agin, I'm not an expert on computer science and quantum physics.
but you can't delete people? That's actually the big problem that need to be addressed imo. It happen now (or later) with llm, but in the past it have been a problem with industrialization (big unemployment of workers) and then globalization (unemployment of more local workers).
If it's not addreased correctly, llm won't be a progress for humanity.
But if you want to compare it "technically", maybe it's better to look at computer usage now vs with llm maybe (how many google request, sim failed, screen on etc.)
I think the claim is more about people's consistency in their choice. "If you care so much, start to [insert any environmental friendly acivity] and then we can discuss about LLM environmental impact".
Your comment make sense only if you replace AI by LLM. The use of AI algo is usefull for many cases outside natural language processig problem and well before the "LLM revolution".
Regrettably it seems the term AI has been hijacked by LLMs. You must now be more specific when discussing AI: referring to classifiers, goal planning or decision making systems.
It's a threat to many workers imo, just like autonomous machine were to the workers during the industry revolution, and later with the factories moving to China. Many people suffered from unemployment and the solution so far have been solved by creating new needs and new jobs, as well as policies such as social security.
But with the externalization of intelectual work (which happen without IA, for ex. India tech) I wonder if such solution is possible.
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