Future wars will be scarier even without a nuclear bomb, as each soldier will act as a machine.
“Advances in artificial intelligence will see that soldiers in future will have real-time info in their hands and they will not need a command system to act,” according to Prof. Boris Stilman of the Colorado University in the US. The soldier can fight the war with the help of an I-pad like device which can also feed ground info to the central command. “It’s my hope that the scarier nature of the war will itself work as a deterrent,” he told this newspaper.
It was Stilman who developed Linguistic Geometry (LG) for solving abstract board games like chess, which is now being used for military purpose. He on the sidelines of an international seminar on intelligent systems, organised by Cochin University of Science and Technology on Tuesday.
Mr Stilman’s association with former world chess champion Professor Mikhail Botvinnik from 1972 to 1988, in Moscow, for the advanced research project, Pioneer, led him to LG. The goal of the project was to discover and formalise an approach utilised by most advanced chess experts in solving chess problems.
Eventually, Stilman left the then USSR. Says he, “Life was unbearable in the days ahead of Peristroika and Glasnost.” That was when he got a position at McGill University in Canada. He moved to the US in 1991 and went on to start a company, Stilman Advanced Strategies, in 1999, which is working in collaboration with the US national defense. “The US infantry is excited with our LG-based software and it may soon be part of its war gear,” Prof Stilman said.