Tom Brosz said:

"I would really not like to see a computer decide whether that movement over there was an insurgent, or a kid running across the street after a ball."

It's my understanding that modern, state-of-the-art naval and land mines have microcontrollers in them and are fairly intelligent. Supposably a modern anti-tank or naval mine can count the number of times something goes by it and then explodes. These mines can also shut themselves down after a certain passage of time (Yeah, I'm reminded of "Dark Star"). Years ago they developed this really funky weapon called "assault breaker". It was essentially a cluster munition that was launched on a short range missile. The missile's fairing was exploded over the target area and the bomblets scattered. Each bomblet had a millimeter wave detector driven by a microcontroller. The bomblet looked for tanks as it was falling. If it saw a tank, it detonated and shot a jet of liquid metal in the direction of the tank (self forging round). If it didn't see a tank, it would shift into "land mine" mode after hitting the ground. Presumably it would sit on the ground looking for someone to walk by and then shoot a self forging round at the unfortunate target. This stuff reads like something out of "Terminator 2" (Weird things people do for a living.).

Gary