Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Artificial Intelligence Is What Will Win Future Wars


Patrick Tucker, Defense One: The Next Big War Will Turn on AI, Says US Secret-Weapons Czar

William Roper says the military must get better at feeding the voracious learning algorithms that will fight future battles.

The first day of the next major conflict shouldn’t look like war at all according to William Roper, who runs the Pentagon’s Strategic Capabilities Office, or SCO. Instead, imagine a sort of digital collection blitzkrieg, with data-gathering software and sensors setting of alarms left and right as they vacuum up info for a massive AI. Whoever collects the most data on Day One just might win the war before a single shot is fired.

“My prediction for the future is that when we go out to fly planes on the first day of battle, whether they are manned or unmanned, that the purpose of the first day or the second day will not be to go out and destroy enemy aircraft or other systems. It’s to go out, collect data, do data reconnaissance, so that our learning system gets smarter than [the enemy’s],” Roper said Tuesday at an Air Force Association event on Tuesday. “Every day you fly, you get that exponential increase in sophistication.”

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WNU Editor: We are still far away from having AI platforms that will fight our battles and win our wars .... but 50 or 100 years from now .... who knows.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Overlooking a huge weakness, that is a virus could quickly spread throughout the system. I think sometimes in war, less is more. That is the less ammo we have, the more we make it count.

TWN said...

AI vs the Humans, I wonder who will win.