An officer and a gen AI: the future of war
The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
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🗓️ 12 July 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Artificial intelligence is already making a difference in the theatre of war, and more involvement will certainly come. That raises a host of thorny ethical issues. In some cases, scientists just clocked, extinct beasts’ DNA can be extraordinarily well preserved—revealing once-inaccessible biological secrets (10:43). And remembering Pål Enger, who never quite knew why he felt compelled to steal “The Scream” (19:25).
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| 0:00.0 | The Economist. |
| 0:07.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from The Economist. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from The Economist. I'm Rosie Blore. |
| 0:15.0 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the event shaping your world. |
| 0:20.0 | The D. The DNA sequences of lots of long dead beasts are already known. |
| 0:29.7 | What scientists hadn't discovered is how that DNA is folded and tucked into chromosomes, |
| 0:34.0 | the real owner's manual for how to run, say, a woolly mammoth. |
| 0:38.0 | That, though, just changed. |
| 0:42.0 | And everyone knows the painting The screen by Edward Monk, but few were haunted by it like |
| 0:47.1 | Pal Enger was, so he stole it. |
| 0:49.9 | Our obituaries editor describes a thief who, under different circumstances, might have been a friend of the artist. |
| 1:00.0 | First up, though, |
| 1:03.0 | the The war in Europe. |
| 1:14.8 | battlefields have long served as proving grounds for new technologies. |
| 1:18.4 | To break the stalemate, Britain had introduced the tank. |
| 1:22.0 | Germany was using liquid. Britain had introduced the tank. |
| 1:25.0 | Germany was using liquid fire. |
| 1:30.0 | And those technologies have in turn changed the character of war. from tanks to radar and the awesome destructive power of the bomb. |
| 1:40.8 | The force from which the sun draws his power has been loosed against those who brought war to the |
| 1:47.0 | computers too have played their part. Colossus was built in 1944 to crack Nazi codes and by the 1950s This was |
| 1:55.0 | organizing America's air defences. |
| 2:00.0 | In the decades, the role of machine intelligence grew, but remained quite small. |
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