Chinese sailors on top of a submarine during the fleet's review of the China-Russia joint naval exercise in the Yellow Sea April 26, 2012. REUTERS/China Daily
SCMP: China’s plan to use artificial intelligence to boost the thinking skills of nuclear submarine commanders
Equipping nuclear submarines with AI would give China an upper hand in undersea battles while pushing applications of the technology to a new level
China is working to update the rugged old computer systems on nuclear submarines with artificial intelligence to enhance the potential thinking skills of commanding officers, a senior scientist involved with the programme told the South China Morning Post.
A submarine with AI-augmented brainpower not only would give China’s large navy an upper hand in battle under the world’s oceans but would push applications of AI technology to a new level, according to the researcher, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the project’s sensitivity.
“Though a submarine has enormous power of destruction, its brain is actually quite small,” the researcher said.
While a nuclear submarine depends on the skill, experience and efficiency of its crew to operate effectively, the demands of modern warfare could introduce variables that would cause even the smoothest-run operation to come unglued.
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WNU Editor: The Chinese have gone a long way since this .... The Abacus Played A Critical Role In Developing China's First Nuclear Submarines (Friday, July 14, 2017).
2 comments:
I am pretty skeptical about that. AI is not coming from nothing, especially in the field of war. AI needs a base of "thinking" and based from experience...exactly what China has nothing.
That's factually incorrect. AI can teach itself, does not require an existing db(ase) of thinking and can operate goal based as observer first
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