The even bigger problem is that robot listening systems are very fragile and sensitive to ambient noise so if it is pin drop silence then it is POSSIBLE to find a sniper but otherwise for a noisy environment such as a war zone it is extremely impractical....... unless one wrote a program that has some amount of AI not the level we have today. Seriously imagine this you are the robot and you have to pinpoint the source of one shot of gun fire from the 100's in the background and what if the rifle itself is modified.....
I hope we realise the practicality of the system before spending money on it which would be better used
Another interesting thing that came to my minds are "chaos" chips which can rearrange their architecture to become something else i.e possibilities of evolving chips comes into my head this research will greatly boost of this happening in the future
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The even bigger problem is that robot listening systems are very fragile and sensitive to ambient noise so if it is pin drop silence then it is POSSIBLE to find a sniper but otherwise for a noisy environment such as a war zone it is extremely impractical....... unless one wrote a program that has some amount of AI not the level we have today. Seriously imagine this you are the robot and you have to pinpoint the source of one shot of gun fire from the 100's in the background and what if the rifle itself is modified..... I hope we realise the practicality of the system before spending money on it which would be better used
Another interesting thing that came to my minds are "chaos" chips which can rearrange their architecture to become something else i.e possibilities of evolving chips comes into my head this research will greatly boost of this happening in the future