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Three months since it again seized full control of government, Myanmar’s army has so far failed to subdue opposition to its takeover. Despite state security forces’ routine killing, maiming, detention and torture of demonstrators, protests continue in towns and cities, growing smaller in size but getting stronger in determination. As protest leaders form alliances with elected legislators and armed groups in frontier areas, the military is resorting to increased violence to quell dissent.
By Dr. Peter Layton
Artificial intelligence (AI) technology is suddenly important to military forces. Not yet an arms race, today’s competition is more in terms of an experimentation race with many AI systems being tested and new research centers established. There may be a considerable first-mover advantage to the country that first understands AI adequately enough to change its existing human-centered force structures and embrace AI warfighting.
In a new Joint Studies Paper, I explore sea, land and air operational concepts appropriate to fighting near-to-medium term future AI-enabled wars. With much of the underlying narrow AI technology already developed in the commercial sector, this is less of a speculative exercise than might be assumed. Moreover, the contemporary AI’s general-purpose nature means its initial employment will be within existing operational level constructs, not wholly new ones.
“I spent an hour just staring at this image,” lead researcher, astronomer Pieter van Dokkum of Yale University says as he recalls first seeing the Hubble image of NGC 1052-DF2, a galaxy completely void of dark matter. “This thing is astonishing, a gigantic blob so sparse that you see the galaxies behind it. It is literally a see-through galaxy. It’s so rare, particularly these days after so many years of Hubble, that you get an image of something and you say, ‘I’ve never seen that before.”
No theory that predicts its existence
The universe is not simply a place, as astronomers keep discovering, it’s an unfolding dynamic and developmental process –it’s a story. In 2918, an international team of researchers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and several other observatories for the first time, uncovered a galaxy in our cosmic neighborhood that is missing most if not all of its dark matter. A second galaxy missing dark matter was found in the NGC 1052 Gro
By Dr. Peter Layton
Artificial intelligence (AI) technology is suddenly important to military forces. Not yet an arms race, today’s competition is more in terms of an experimentation race with many AI systems being tested and new research centers established. There may be a considerable first-mover advantage to the country that first understands AI adequately enough to change its existing human-centered force structures and embrace AI warfighting.
In a new Joint Studies Paper, I explore sea, land and air operational concepts appropriate to fighting near-to-medium term future AI-enabled wars. With much of the underlying narrow AI technology already developed in the commercial sector, this is less of a speculative exercise than might be assumed. Moreover, the contemporary AI’s general-purpose nature means its initial employment will be within existing operational level constructs, not wholly new ones.