AI-enabled weapons could wage war with a speed and complexity that is beyond human understanding
is “poised to change the character of the future battlefield”, declared America’s Department of Defence in its firststrategy document, in February. A Joint Artificial Intelligence Centre was launched in the Pentagon in summer 2018, and a National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence met for the first time in March.
For all that, most such systems embody intelligence that is narrow and brittle—good at one task in a well-defined environment, but liable to fail badly in unfamiliar settings. So existing autonomous weapons are comprised of either loitering missiles that smash into radars or quick-firing guns that defend ships and bases. Useful, but not revolutionary—and neither requires the fancy machine-learning techniques pioneered in recent years.is useful only for battlefield drudgery.
Earth-i, a British company, can apply machine-learning algorithms from a range of satellites to identify different variants of military aircraft across dozens of bases with over 98% accuracy , according to Sean Corbett, a retired air vice-marshal in the Royal Air Force who now works for the firm. “The clever bit”, he says, “is then developing methods to automatically identify what is normal and what is not normal.
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