A.I Applications in the Pakistani Military

[iwaheed]

Hello all. To keep the introduction short, my name is Imran Waheed, i am in the technology and software market. I am writting a thesis, which i desperately needed some assistance on. The assistance is only required for a particluar section which will encompass the miltray sector of Pakistan. My topic is about Artificial Intellegence, and i need to find out information regrading the uses of such technology by the Pakistani Militray or its future potential for the Pakistani Military. I need to get names of such systems (e.g. that are used for offensive, defense, pre-analytical etc.) . I need to make an analysis and write down actual examples. I would greatly appreciate it if somebody could assist me on the actual information, as i have very limited knowledge on the Pakistani Military software and technology applications and also the need for A.I based application, which the U.S has been using since th Gulf War 1. I want to remain up to date on this information now, and i was hoping i could educate and explore this information through this forum if possible. I would appreciate anyones comments on the topic i have presented above, as i will need that within a month.

Thanks

Imran Waheed

[Sharjeel]

ic. intresting to see some one intrested in this field.

Pakistan has made varius Artificialy intelegent devices. from UAVs to batlefield computers. i am usually in Pakistandefence.com and know the location of that news on that furom. BUT that site is down so cannot help you at the moment. one thing you should know in the recent years pakistan has released the most comp viruses. and PAK is developing some intresting stuff. i would give the industry another 10-25 years to become ripe.

[Rafaqat]

Sharjeel,

i dont think that was what iwaheed is trying to find out. I think you have misunderstood the meaning of "Artificial intelligence". Waheed is probably referring to some very interesting technologies like neural networks etc.

iwaheed,
i personally have no idea about application of artificial intelligence technology in Pakistan's defence industry. The internet is there to serve you. If you are researching the application of artificial intelligence in military products in general, try researching through google. There is bound to be a lot of informationon the subject.

I am not really sure whether many peopel here would have answer to your question. Good luck with your research. I personally would avoid topics that i could not find any data/information on.

[Sharjeel]

aaaaaaaaah.
nural networking is hardware side of things not software. he is probably seacrhing for alice bot type. the ones they emulate humans lol. those things have no home in the militry untill they are fully operational and kan think like a human.

only AI thngi i know of are UAVs and stuff. intrested????

[Rafaqat]

But sharjeel, there is no artificial intelligence in a UAV. An unmanned vehicle does not have a man in the loop. Its an automated system, and thats about it. There is nothing special or particularly intelligent about it.

Rafaqat

[nasir]

AI Applications useful in a military scenario:
Probabilistic (Bayesian) analysis and decision (decision trees) support.
Data mining for patterns
Natural Language Processing
Shape Recognition
.....

UAV's are not AI, unless they fly autonomously or do some kind of shape recognition. Autonomous navigation whether in vehicles or UAV always has elements of AI, decision making algorithms, shape recognition algorithms, etc.

With today’s AI technology a machine that kills intentionally like a UCAV should never be completely autonomous, there should always be a human making the decision to fire the shot, but autonomous agents can be used to recognize potential targets.

[Rafaqat]

The ground control stations are a significant aspect of UAV operation, so human input involved is considerable afterall !!

UAV's ability to fly an automated mission in itself is not significant. Commercial airliners also have related aspects i.e autopilot control. Many commercial aircraft have the capability to conduct auto-land, even in bad weather.

Nasir seems to be well knowledged on AI and its applications. I think waheed could probably do with your help.

Rafaqat

[nasir]

UAV's ability to fly an automated mission in itself is not significant. Commercial airliners also have related aspects i.e autopilot control. Many commercial aircraft have the capability to conduct auto-land, even in bad weather.


You are right, Most of the groundbraking AI research peaked in the 1960's, that is when the NP-Complete issues started and the scientist found a fairly large family of problems that counldn't be solved efficiently with digital computers, no matter how fast the hardware. There have been advances since then but mostly due to better hardware support and because of distributed and multi processor systems.



Nasir seems to be well knowledged on AI and its applications. I think waheed could probably do with your help.

I am just coming off of a graduate course in AI so the material is still fresh.

[Sharjeel]

the global hawk is able to lock onto and be ready to fire on enemy fully automaticly. it is also programmed to automaticly defend against incoming missiles. and can fully automaticly do a mision once it is programmed.

this is AI.... AI is not in sence that the plane makes its kwn decision rather a set of commands. and a set of intrustion. IF this happens do that or do this....etc etc etc...

[Sharjeel]

BTW sorry for my mis understanding of nueral networks lol. i thought you where reffreing to reaserch where they try to network a brain with computers (remember that rat brain that flew a f18 sim)