Here , conflict is gonna be faster than
we can ever imagine . It's really about
moving information around quickly
making decisions in , in split second
moments and a human cannot make
decisions . I found
A I and warfare are writ large . So
what is A I going to buy us as a
country as a nation investing in it ?
Well , one it helps us with better
decision making . The other thing is
speed . The third thing really is
helping us do more with less . Our
digital systems are generating more
information every day . The ability for
humans to keep up with that information
is um becoming non existent . We , we
can't , for example , video feeds from
uh various drones , you know , a human ,
you normally would sit there and watch
that all day every day . But at a
certain point , you become saturated
and you don't have enough humans to do
that . So you have to rely on the
machine .
Thank you for Sony Atlantic is really
exploring A I in three different ways .
One is where we've always invested in
natural language processing , which is
a subfield of artificial intelligence .
The second is really tied to
electromagnetic spectrum . So
understanding how we can both protect
our systems and dominate other systems
in that , in that domain . Again , at
speed , these are things that are going
to happen faster than a human can do it .
So we have to rely on algorithm . Uh
And the last thing is really decision
support , decision advantage , we might
want to call it . But how are we going
to use these algorithms ? How are we
going to apply them to our decision
making processes ? So we are working
directly for the chief of naval
operations to develop a dashboard . We
are using that to display the combatant
fuel that is on board ships worldwide
to allow for decision making purposes .
So the A I capabilities for the fuel
executive dashboard uh were related
around message traffic . The commanders
task forces around the world . They're
using these naval messages right now
and they are manually parsing these
messages and it's taking them roughly
around four hours a day . The fuels
executive dashboard will allow them
that automatic feed of data in . So
imagine a fuels officer getting up
really early in the morning , maybe
seventh fleet . Third fleet comes in in
the morning and pulls up the dashboard
and within his area of operation , he
has a Refueler and three ships that he
has to make a decision on . He's
looking at the mission set from our
navy Combatants and then he's looking
at those refueling assets that he may
have . He needs to see the amount of
fuel , the type of fuel that they have
where they're located and then how he
can join those two forces together . He
can use that data to make a data
informed decision that I need to place
my Refueler in a certain position ,
which would allow me to optimize the
refueling points for those three ships
where before he wouldn't have the exact
information at , at his hand and he
would have to go comb through those
naval messages manually . So the
dashboard is actually , I would say
honestly a small piece of the overall
scope . The major scope and the major
effort was the data engineering behind
getting that data that we've built our
natural language , processing regular
expression scripts to extract the few
information that we then publish on the
dashboard . It allows the war fighter
to save time and refocus their time and
efforts on the mission that they have
at hand to make true decisions that are
needed by a human versus a computer .
Please . B And normally you , you think
about engineers and scientists , it's ,
it's , it's very like pigeonholed into
uh usually a male dominated field , but
this is , is accessible to everyone .
So we're able to pull talent from a
variety of different areas and a
variety of different backgrounds . So
having that diversity in those
background , especially the backgrounds ,
the community you come from how you
interact with the world . It is very
important , especially with A I because
A I is about hu humanity really , it's
about having a machine pretend to be a
human almost . And so you want to have
the machine being built , being applied
from a people of a variety of
backgrounds so that it is responsible
so that it doesn't have biases .
It's easy to not realize how much A I
really impacts our lives from day to
day , how much algorithms and data is
already impacting our lives . It's
telling you what search results might
be important to you . It's using your
information about your preferences to
deliver specific search results . So
what excites me most about A I is that
we a population or as an organization
have never generated more data than we
are now . And in the future , we're
going to be generating a lot more data .
So what A I is going to allow us to do
is to cut through the noise and really
see the data points that are gonna be
of interest and allow us to provide
decision advantage to our war fighters .
Artificial intelligence is a critical
competitive advantage in any future
conflict .