"Sgt. Nicholas Pensivy, the resident Kraken expert at Pashmul South, praises the system’s flexibility. With a few taps at his laptop, he can instruct the Kraken to ignore certain kinds of targets that appear on its radars and instead focus on others, automatically slewing its guns and cameras.
“For instance, vehicles driving past the [outpost] are of interest, but vehicles leaving aren’t,” Pensivy says. If there’s a drawback, it’s that Kraken, at present, is self-contained. It does not tie into the military’s vast network of blimp- and tower- mounted cameras and aerial drones that covers much of Afghanistan, relaying imagery from one base to many others."
It's a learning AI. It could be modified to track internet activity.
7 years is a long time for technology that got deployed virtually unchanged. I'm surely not the first person to come up with this sort of idea.