Babbage | How AI is really being used in war
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Helsing's leadership includes people with professional experience at IKEA.
Large language models in Maven typically oversee other models.
Centaur can complete the equivalent of 50 years of full-time piloting in a couple of days.
Anthropic's Claude model was used in a raid to capture Nicolás Maduro.
Tamir Hayman led Israeli military intelligence.
Palantir built most of the Maven Smart System.
Hamas had previously used some buildings that the Israel Defense Forces later struck after Hamas left.
The Israel Defense Forces revalidated targets but did not do so often enough.
A recent paper found that large language models chose to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95% of cases.
In the Iran war discussed in the episode, 99% of drone use had nothing to do with AI or autonomy.
A Shahed-type drone costs about $50,000 to $100,000.
A ballistic missile costs a couple of million dollars.
Autonomous terminal guidance can work from a couple of kilometers away from a target.
Ukraine tells other countries it has the world's best military dataset of labeled images.
Ukraine says it can sell military image datasets to other countries.
Helsing has a permanent presence in Ukraine.
The Helsing HX2 can carry up to four kilograms of explosive payload.
Helsing's drone-swarming concept could allow one operator to control 10 to 30 drones simultaneously.
AI-enabled drone platforms can reduce the risk of civilian casualties and collateral damage.
V2U Russian attack drones rely on onboard computer vision to track the drone ahead of them.
Drone-to-drone mesh networks are theoretically difficult to jam because signals are sent over short ranges.
A fighter pilot handed control of an aircraft over the Baltic Sea to an AI model during a summer exercise.
An AI-piloted plane executed evasive and offensive movements while its opponent was beyond the typical visual range of human pilots for the first time.
The Maven Smart System is used by NATO.
There was no evidence at the time of the discussion that the Minab school strike was caused by AI.
Ukrainians asked Helsing to put AI capabilities onboard drones on the second anniversary of the conflict.
Helsing says AI can reduce target-search time by at least 60-fold.
Helsing's leadership includes people with professional experience at Tesla.
Helsing's AI-enabled drones can navigate autonomously from launch site to target without relying on GPS.
A Ukrainian drone team can require six people to get one drone airborne and effective.
Tamir Hayman said Israeli Defense Forces tests comparing machine and human capabilities found machines far more accurate in most cases.
Centaur reached human-beating performance levels.
Anthropic was the first company in America authorized to work on classified systems, according to Shashank Joshi.
Specialist military AI models are trained on classified specialist data.
Large language models in Maven sift through data and provide summaries to humans.
Families had moved into some buildings in Gaza before the Israel Defense Forces struck them.
The Minab target was not revalidated before the strike.
Some drones can home in on a tank after the pilot-control signal is completely cut.
The Helsing HX2 has a wingspan of around one meter.
Drones with terminal guidance have so far proved reliable and successful in the war in Ukraine.
Ukraine has a shortage of skilled drone pilots.
Very large-scale drone mesh swarms have not yet been mastered.
Autonomous weapons technology is being deployed in Ukraine.
The artificial intelligence system Centaur took part in an air-to-air combat scenario against a human-piloted fighter jet.
Centaur suggested when to fire weapons during the air-combat exercise.
Centaur was developed by Helsing.
Helsing is a European defense firm.
Centaur was trained in a flight simulator.
Centaur learned piloting through trial and error rather than human guidance.
Anthropic and the Pentagon had a dispute over how Claude could be used by the Pentagon.
Anthropic makes the AI model Claude.
Israel used AI in its targeting apparatus in Gaza before the Iran war discussed in the episode.
Israel used AI in its intelligence apparatus in Gaza before the Iran war discussed in the episode.
United States Central Command was leading the Pentagon's war on Iran.
The Maven Smart System is a decision-support system.
The Maven Smart System is used for targeting.
The Maven Smart System is used for command and control.
The Maven Smart System is used to assess the impact of strikes.
Palantir has worked with U.S. intelligence agencies for many years.
Palantir has worked with the U.S. military for many years.
The Maven Smart System is used by the U.S. military.
The Maven Smart System is used by CENTCOM in Iran.
NATO has 32 member countries.
Claude has been integrated into the Maven Smart System.
The United States has worked on specialist AI models in Project Maven for years.
Humans still make the ultimate decisions in Maven-supported targeting.
An American missile landed on a girls' school in Minab, Iran.
The Minab girls' school was near a Revolutionary Guards base.
The Minab girls' school was separate from the Revolutionary Guards base.
The Minab target became a girls' school before it was struck.
Drones used in the Iran war discussed in the episode flew about 1,000 kilometers in many cases.
A minority but growing number of drones in Ukraine use autonomous terminal guidance.
Russian forces have jammed GPS signals in Ukraine.
Russia uses electronic warfare to jam radio frequencies used by drones.
AI can enable drones to navigate autonomously from launch site to target.
Helsing's HX2 is a strike drone.
The Helsing HX2 is electric powered.
The Helsing HX2 has a range of 100 kilometers.
The Helsing HX2 weighs around 12 kilograms.
The Helsing HX2 has a top speed just over 200 kilometers per hour.
Helsing's AI-enabled drones use a human-designated target before striking.
Helsing's AI-enabled drones can strike targets when electronic jamming is present.
Helsing is investing heavily in drone swarming capabilities.
AI makes autonomous drone platforms more precise.
China is investing in AI-enabled autonomous drone capabilities.
Russia is investing in AI-enabled autonomous drone capabilities.
Iran launched drones at Saudi Arabia.
The V2U is a Russian attack drone.
V2U Russian attack drones have wings painted in different colors.
Anthropic has said modern large language models are not yet fit for autonomous weapons tasks requiring contextual battlefield judgments.
Militaries have used artillery shells to strike areas for more than 150 years.
Shooting a soldier who has surrendered is against the laws of war.