The model considers vast amounts of data, including tax and property ownership records, agricultural maps, data on soil fertility, logs from the military and emergency services of where bombs and shells have landed, information gleaned from satellite images and interviews with local civilians and the military. Even climate change models and data on population density derived from mobile phone operators could be assessed. The AI then weighs factors such as civilian safety and potential economic benefits to determine the importance of a given piece of land and how urgent it is to make it safe.
But with so many factors to consider, you can prioritize any area of land simply by weighing them differently.
Also since when is weighing multiple factors Artificial Intelligence? I mean, this is moving the goalpost, but moving them closer not further...
It seems a good way to shut down discussions about fairness. If any human makes the decision, that human will be perceived as unfair, because any choice of priorities will have losers.
This way, the blame falls on the nameless algorithm. The computer said no. AI is a great varnish for this kind of algorithm, being the best intelligence we ever made, and being inscrutable. You need a fairly advanced understanding before you can look behind the curtain to the person turning the actual knobs.
Unfortunately, if the AI chooses the wrong losers, those knobs will be turned to elect other losers
The worst mine used in this conflict is the Lepestok, which is the Soviet analogue of the BLU-43 from the Vietnam War. Super easy to manufacture in obscene quantities, super easy to deploy at range, very hard to see, and will at a minimum blow your leg off. Very very nasty weapon.
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But with so many factors to consider, you can prioritize any area of land simply by weighing them differently.
Also since when is weighing multiple factors Artificial Intelligence? I mean, this is moving the goalpost, but moving them closer not further...
This way, the blame falls on the nameless algorithm. The computer said no. AI is a great varnish for this kind of algorithm, being the best intelligence we ever made, and being inscrutable. You need a fairly advanced understanding before you can look behind the curtain to the person turning the actual knobs.
Unfortunately, if the AI chooses the wrong losers, those knobs will be turned to elect other losers