(NewsReady.com) – Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. The war is approaching its third anniversary. A new report indicates the conflict has ushered in a new era of artificial intelligence (AI) warfare.
The Russian war has created big changes in Ukraine. The country is pouring money into technology to change the way wars are fought. According to a report by The New York Times, Ukraine is becoming the Silicon Valley for AI drones and other weapons.
The companies are focusing on turning consumer technology into weapons of war. They want to limit the input of human judgment when firing at a target. The movement is being fueled by the availability of easy-to-design software, AI microchips, off-the-shelf devices, and automation algorithms. The report claims that the race for innovation is “fueling a potential new era of killer robots.”
Some of the weapons utilize a form of AI technology called deep learning. In this method, machines use massive amounts of data to identify patterns and make decisions, similar to the way programs like OpenAI’s GPT-4 work. The machines can also interpret video footage and respond to it in real-time.
Ukrainian experts claimed the country is not far away from developing machine guns with computer versions that use AI to shoot down soldiers or swarms of drones that coordinate attacks on targets. While the advances aren’t as good as the weapons the US, Russia, and other countries have, they are special because they only cost a few thousand dollars and are readily available.
Stuart Russell, an AI scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, said Ukraine has made it clear that the world will one day see “cheap, scalable” weapons of mass destruction on worldwide markets.
Mykhailo Fedorov, the Ukrainian minister of digital transformation, said the country needs “maximum automation” and that “technologies are fundamental” to its victory in the war against Russia. The autonomous drones are controversial but are currently only being used when a human is involved.
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