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Military AI optimists predict future AI assisting or making command decisions.

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The video discusses the potential role of AI in warfare, emphasizing concerns about the ambiguous definitions of war and a lack of detailed insights into AI capabilities. It highlights the difference between inductive and abductive reasoning and points out contradictions in AI optimism. While AI can process data faster and may assist in tasks like identifying military assets, its current application is mostly complementary rather than revolutionary. The video critiques the limitations of AI in understanding the unique nature of war, arguing that AI's training on repetitive tasks doesn’t capture the complexities of warfare. It also examines different AI decision-making methods and discusses the inadequacies of probabilistic reasoning in establishing causation. The authors stress the importance of strategic uncertainty and human factors in military decision-making, leading to misunderstandings about AI's military potential.

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The video discusses the role around AI's potential in war

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and conflict, highlighting lack

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of detail on specific capabilities

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and concerns about twisting definitions of war.

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Command and strategy.

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Authors differentiate between inductive

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and abductive reasoning pointing out contradictions.

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Within the AI optimist literature,

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machines can analyze data faster

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and more objectively than humans, making them useful

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for tasks like identifying tanks

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and curating defense system data.

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However, their use in the military is currently limited

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to complementary

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or evolutionary steps rather than

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revolutionary transformation.

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Human AI teaming

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and software-defined automation are discussed,

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but their potential impact is still unclear.

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The video discusses the limitations of applying AI

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and warfare, arguing that the unique nature

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of war situations cannot be trained

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through repetitive tasks like AI can learn.

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It also highlights different kinds of AI decision making,

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such as deductive

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and probabilistic methods used by systems like Deep Blue

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and AlphaGo respectively.

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David Hume's classical problem

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of induction highlights the limitation

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of probabilistic thinking,

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even if two things are always correlated,

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we can't conclude causation, inductive reasoning

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and abductive reasoning are used

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strategically in decision making.

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Machine learning models claim

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to perform abductive inference,

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but it's not equivalent

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to philosophical abductive reasoning.

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The authors discuss the complexity of war

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and the importance of strategic uncertainty,

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unknown unknowns,

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and human factors in decision making, leading

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to flawed perceptions

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and understanding of AI's capabilities in military contexts.

00:00 - The video discusses the role around AI's potential in war and conflict, highlighting lack of detail on specific capabilities and concerns about twisting definitions of war. Command and strategy. Authors differentiate between inductive

00:15 - and abductive reasoning pointing out contradictions. Within the AI optimist literature, machines can analyze data faster and more objectively than humans, making them useful for tasks like identifying tanks and curating defense system data. However, their use in the military is currently limited to complementary or evolutionary steps rather than revolutionary transformation.

00:39 - Human AI teaming and software-defined automation are discussed, but their potential impact is still unclear. The video discusses the limitations of applying AI and warfare, arguing that the unique nature of war situations cannot be trained through repetitive tasks like AI can learn. It also highlights different kinds of AI decision making, such as deductive and probabilistic methods used by systems like Deep Blue

01:05 - and AlphaGo respectively. David Hume's classical problem of induction highlights the limitation of probabilistic thinking, even if two things are always correlated, we can't conclude causation, inductive reasoning and abductive reasoning are used strategically in decision making. Machine learning models claim to perform abductive inference,

01:28 - but it's not equivalent to philosophical abductive reasoning. The authors discuss the complexity of war and the importance of strategic uncertainty, unknown unknowns, and human factors in decision making, leading to flawed perceptions and understanding of AI's capabilities in military contexts.

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