28-02-2013, 03:25 PM
Artificial Intelligence in the Military
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History
1918 – first tests on guided missiles
1945 – Germany makes first ballistic missile
1950 – AIM-7 Sparrow
“fire-and-forget
1973 – remotely piloted vehicles (RPVs)
Used to confuse enemy air defenses
1983 – tomahawk missile first used by navy
Uses terrain contour matching system
1983 – Reagan make his famous star wars speech
1988 – U.S.S. Vincennes mistakenly destroys Iranian airbus due to autonomous friend/foe radar system
Neural Networks
Inspired by studies of the brain
Massively parallel
Highly connected
Many simple units
Areas where neural nets are useful
· pattern association
· pattern classification
· regularity detection
· image processing
· speech analysis
· optimization problems
· robot steering
· processing of inaccurate or incomplete inputs
· quality assurance
· simulation
Synthetic Aperture Radar
Data collection for ATD
Self-illuminating imaging radar
Creates a height map of a surface
Maintains spatial resolution regardless of distance from target
Can be used day and night regardless of cloud cover
Tomahawk Missile Navigation
Missile contains a map of terrain
Figures out its current position from percepts (radar & altimeter)
Uses a modified Gaussian least square differential correction algorithm, a step size limitation filter, and a radial basis function
Ethics
Accountability
Legal
Political
Example: Aegis defense system shoots down an Iranian Airbus jetliner in 1988
Use of AI in warfare
Ethics of Research and Development
Potential uses
Military Funding of AI
Passing of the blame “just doing my job”
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History
1918 – first tests on guided missiles
1945 – Germany makes first ballistic missile
1950 – AIM-7 Sparrow
“fire-and-forget
1973 – remotely piloted vehicles (RPVs)
Used to confuse enemy air defenses
1983 – tomahawk missile first used by navy
Uses terrain contour matching system
1983 – Reagan make his famous star wars speech
1988 – U.S.S. Vincennes mistakenly destroys Iranian airbus due to autonomous friend/foe radar system
Neural Networks
Inspired by studies of the brain
Massively parallel
Highly connected
Many simple units
Areas where neural nets are useful
· pattern association
· pattern classification
· regularity detection
· image processing
· speech analysis
· optimization problems
· robot steering
· processing of inaccurate or incomplete inputs
· quality assurance
· simulation
Synthetic Aperture Radar
Data collection for ATD
Self-illuminating imaging radar
Creates a height map of a surface
Maintains spatial resolution regardless of distance from target
Can be used day and night regardless of cloud cover
Tomahawk Missile Navigation
Missile contains a map of terrain
Figures out its current position from percepts (radar & altimeter)
Uses a modified Gaussian least square differential correction algorithm, a step size limitation filter, and a radial basis function
Ethics
Accountability
Legal
Political
Example: Aegis defense system shoots down an Iranian Airbus jetliner in 1988
Use of AI in warfare
Ethics of Research and Development
Potential uses
Military Funding of AI
Passing of the blame “just doing my job”