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The IDF at the Forefront of Artificial Intelligence

(Jerusalem Post) Anna Ahronheim - Maj. M., a senior officer in the IDF's C4I Directorate (command, control, communications, computers, and intelligence), said that since 2005, the digital revolution has "allowed us to acquire a lot more intelligence with a lot more velocity," enabling the IDF to use artificial intelligence (AI) to significantly increase its target bank. In May, the IDF relied heavily on AI to gather targets belonging to Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad and strike them. "For the first time, a multidisciplinary center was created that produces hundreds of targets relevant to developments in the fighting, allowing the military to continue to fight as long as it needs to with more and more new targets," a senior officer said. In the north opposite Hizbullah, the IDF's target bank in the Northern Command is 20 times larger than in the 2006 war, with thousands of targets ready to be attacked, including headquarters, strategic assets and weapons storehouses. Dr. Irit Idan, executive VP for R&D for Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, explained how AI is used in the Windbreaker tank defense system: "A rocket is launched toward a tank from a short distance and the system needs to identify the launch, what kind of rocket was launched, and destroy it within a few seconds. No human brain can do that in the few seconds that you have between the launch and the hit."
2021-08-05 00:00:00
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