We see that $1000 drones with explosives can be incredibly effective at both surveillance and taking out squads. The fact that these $1000 drones are doing the work often reserved for missiles or artillery with a much higher price tag says just how efficient they are.
Its like the kamakazi pilots, except there's a human driving it, without a human inside.
Ukraine has shown what the future of warfare is. Now everyone is trying to be more efficient at it.
It's a race to give ever more autonomy and power to machines, because humans are too slow, too stupid, and too limited.
There are a million dystopian scifi novels about this, and it seems they're about to start coming true.
That's the point. We don't need amazing robot warriors, that's the dystopian scifi, the hero human who is that much better. Yeah that's gonna be the case, but the point is it doesn't matter. I can mass manufacture my losses faster than you can breed and train human replacements.
The biggest win with AI is that no matter how shitty it is, you can teach another one the same knowledge as the previous one instantly.