Will be too late if don’t start working on AI: Gen Rawat
NEW DELHI: Indian Army Chief General Bipin Rawat Friday pitched for incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) and big data into armed forces’ system, and cautioned that many nations, including “some of our adversaries” are spending “huge money” on this aspect of technology.
Addressing the Army Technology Seminar at Manekshaw Centre here, he said, it will be “too late” if we don’t start work on AI and big data. “We have identified technologies that need to be incorporated (into our system),” he said. “But we also need to address, how can we incorporate AI and big data into our system. We can’t just leave them to be in military glossary,” Rawat said in the keynote address. He said it was time to address the issue in a “significant manner”. “We need to address, how can we incorporate AI and big data into our system. If we don’t start now, it will be too late.
“Countries around the world, including some of of our adversaries, are spending huge amounts of money on this aspect,” he said.
The army chief said the next revolution in military affairs will be defined by technology and innovations in technology.
Minster of state for defence Shubhash Bhamre said leveraging of technology would be a “key determinant” in future warfare. “Technology development has both challenges and opportunities, and it is is heralding a possibility of quantum leap in the nature of waging of war. Technology which were till yesterday only in the realms of science fiction could cause catastrophe tomorrow or even disrupt the international balance of powers,” he said.