[gurps] Re: [Vehicle] TL8 "Pigeon"

[Anthony Jackson]

DataPacRat wrote:

> The setting is no-superscience near-future TL8 SF, but I can still
> pick which Technology Path I want to use to modify that TL8. How far
> along, say, the cyberpunk would I have to go to make its tiny robot
> brain (default Complexity 1) smart enough to distinguish 'person' from
> 'tree'?

With this thing's sensors? It can probably tell human (warm) from tree 
(not warm) but won't do too well about knowing the difference between a 
human and some other warm object, and it will do a lousy job at knowing 
the difference between 'soldier' and 'bystander'. I'd want a complexity 
of at least 4.

Of course, once you have computers on that scale, you don't really need 
human soldiers at all, and resisting a 24d explosion is pretty easy for 
anything with sealed armor.