alt Hacker NewsIt's pretty safe to say that AI will be used on the battlefield making real life and death decisions before it will be able to render a decent pelican on a bike in SVG.
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I think it's beyond decent. I don't understand how people are not more impressed by this. Just a few years ago the only expectation would be garbled nonsense.
Haha, yeah. I tried for it to create a SVG with scissors and it was hopelessly overwhelmed. I think at least the SVG design niche will be safe a little while longer
the battlefield sounds much easier. worst case scenario you kill somebody, but that's what you're trying to do anyways.
if you kill somebody while trying to render a pelican on a bicycle it's a real problem.
I think that's a fair tradeoff. There's no way I'm going back to writing code by hand again. No one deserves that.
It already has been and this has been widely written about. AI was used to identify and prioritize targets for the US to bomb in Iran.
Here's an article from 2 months ago for example: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/commentisfree/2026/ma...
It was also implicated in the bombing of a girls elementary school which left 168 dead. The US did a "triple tap" to kill any first responders.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blam...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/01/dont-blam...