[1/2] A keyboard is used by employees, mostly veterans of the military’s computer corps, at the cyber hotline facility of the Israeli Computer Emergency Response Center (CERT) in Beer Sheva, southern Israel.
JERUSALEM, May 22 (Reuters) – Israel aims to use its technological prowess to become an artificial intelligence “superpower”, the secretary-general of the defense ministry said on Monday, adding autonomous warfare and streamlined warfare. predicted advances in combat decision-making;
Steps to take advantage of rapid advances in AI include establishing a dedicated unit for military robots within the ministry and allocating a record budget for related research and development this year, said a retired army general. said Eyal Zamir of
“Some see AI as the next revolution that will change the face of war on the battlefield,” Zamir told the Herzliya Conference, an annual international security forum.
He cites GPT (pretrained generative transformers) and AGI (artificial general intelligence) as the areas of deep learning that the commercial AI industry will tackle, and will eventually have military applications.
Zamir said these included “the ability of the platform to strike collectively on a scale never seen before, or the ability of combat systems to operate independently, data fusion, and support for rapid decision-making.” said it could be
The ministry declined to provide figures on AI funding.
The Israeli military has unveiled some of its already deployed autonomous systems. It has announced that robotic surveillance jeeps will help patrol the Gaza Strip border in 2021.
Earlier this month, state-owned Israel Aerospace Industries unveiled an autonomous intelligence-gathering submarine, saying it had already completed “thousands of hours” of operation.
Eyal attributes Israel’s achievement in the cyberwarfare widely believed to have been used against Iran’s nuclear facilities to “correct and timely insight into the defense, economic, national and international dimensions”. evaluated.
Similarly, “our mission is to transform the State of Israel into an AI superpower and lead the very limited number of world powers that join this club,” he said.
(This story has been re-edited to fix a typo in paragraph 4)
Written by Dan Williams, Edited by William McLean
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