A.I. and the Next Generation of Drone Warfare
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/ai-and-the-next-generation-of-drone-warfare
Thomas Hamilton, a physicist at the rand Corporation, a think tank that often conducts research for the U.S. armed forces, calls this approach iPhone economics. “It’s the idea that, while the cost of developing the software is billions of dollars, the cost of manufacturing each iPhone is very low. From a military point of view, there’s a huge advantage if I send out a lot of things that are cheap to make but have expensive software—so, if the enemy shoots them down, they haven’t destroyed any of my expensive software.”
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/ai-and-the-next-generation-of-drone-warfare
Thomas Hamilton, a physicist at the rand Corporation, a think tank that often conducts research for the U.S. armed forces, calls this approach iPhone economics. “It’s the idea that, while the cost of developing the software is billions of dollars, the cost of manufacturing each iPhone is very low. From a military point of view, there’s a huge advantage if I send out a lot of things that are cheap to make but have expensive software—so, if the enemy shoots them down, they haven’t destroyed any of my expensive software.”