James Jay Carafano is a leading expert in national security and foreign policy challenges. It’s widely presumed that artificial intelligence (AI) will play a dominant role in future wars. Yuichiro Chino / Getty Images
Key Takeaways
Machine learning, developing processes that mimic human brain functioning, is patterned on how brain cells work in a neural network.
Machine learning will no doubt be part of a family of technologies that delivers a next-generation of computer services.
If neural networks and machine learning remain the dominant AI guiding technologies, the operational usefulness of AI in battle will be rather limited.
It’s widely presumed that artificial intelligence (AI) will play a dominant role in future wars. Maybe not Skynet and Terminator-level stuff, but plenty of independent hunter-killer vehicles blasting each other and the rest of us.