from Hacker News

'Machine-gun with AI' used to kill Iran scientist

by int_10h on 12/7/20, 1:20 PM with 7 comments

• by JabavuAdams on 12/8/20, 1:45 AM

  This is such a weird story. The Iranian government keeps changing its story. They also focus on strange details, like that the gun had the capability to hit the scientist but not his wife. Machine guns have penetration and dispersion, so unless firing from the front, I don't see how it could have minimized the chance of hitting a passenger next to the target. But then if firing from the front, you'd expect it would be likely to penetrate and hit someone in front or behind the target. It's just such a strange detail that really doesn't speak to AI at all.

• by gabrielblack on 12/8/20, 5:09 PM

  > a machine-gun mounted on the Nissan pick-up was "equipped with an intelligent satellite system which zoomed in on martyr Fakhrizadeh"

  Less or more the technique seen in the '97 remake of "The Day of the Jackal" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jackal_(1997_film) with Bruce Willis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ4j7OArO8Q , without depleted uranium ammo

• by raxxorrax on 12/7/20, 1:33 PM

  What is scary that it is technically quite possible to develop such a gun even for an individual. The most complex part is probably mount and motors, but that is a manageable problem.