美陆军采取措施提高作战人员人工智能技能(英文)

2020-05-29 智邦网

编译 致远

据defensenews2020年5月29日报道,5月27日,美陆军未来司令部司令约翰·默里将军宣布,为提高作战人员人工智能技能,美陆军启动三项工作,包括调整军种长期规划,以及两种人员培训方式。

一是“团队协同”(Team Ignite),默里称之为“随时参与”,通过吸纳军队作战概念研究团队,先期尽早参与科研人员技术研发工作,促进作战需求与技术研发密切结合,根据作战需要及时调整,与研制部门协同改进提高,实现规划编制程序正规化。

为提高作战部队人工智能技能,他表示:“提高陆军人工智能水平的关键是培育一批高水平信息专业技术人才”,强调两个方面:

系统训练:默里列举最近批准的卡内基梅隆大学指导计划,旨在吸纳“年轻军官、士官和准尉”,为他们传授人工智能知识,通过四到五个月的课堂学习,然后在陆军人工智能特遣部队工作五到六个月,最后回到部队,成为AI专业人才。

技能培训:默里主张开办“软件工厂”,挑选拥有计算机技能的军人,从原单位集中起来,组织“基本编码技能”培训,再回到部队。

How Army Futures Command plans to grow soldiers’ artificial intelligence skills

Gen. John Murray, right, the head of Army Futures Command, listens to innovators during a visit to Capital Factory in Austin, Texas, on Sept. 30, 2018. (Courtesy of the U.S. Army)

WASHINGTON — With artificial intelligence expected to form the backbone of the U.S. military in the coming decades, the Army is launching a trio of new efforts to ensure it doesn’t get left behind, according to the head of Army Futures Command.

While speaking at an event Wednesday hosted by the Defense Writers Group, Gen. Mike Murray was asked about areas that need more attention as his command works to modernize the force.

Murray pointed to a change in how the service does long-term planning, as well as two personnel efforts that could pay off in the long run.

The first is something Murray has dubbed “Team Ignite,” which he described as “ad hoc, right now,” with a hope to formalize the process in the future. In essence, this means bringing in the teams that write the concept of operations for the military and having them work next to the technologists driving research and development efforts so that everything is incorporated early.

“It has occurred to me for a long time that when we prepare concepts about how we will fight in the future, they are usually not informed by scientists and what is potentially out there in terms of technology,” Murray said. “And when we invest in technologies, rarely do we consult the concept writers to understand what type of technology will fundamentally change the way we fight in the future.”

In Murray’s vision, this means soon there will be “a concept writer saying, ‘If only I could [do something we can’t do now], this would fundamentally change the way we would fight,’ and a scientist or technologist saying, ‘Well, actually we can, you know, another 10-15 years,’ and then vice versa,” he said. “Really using that to drive where we’re investing our science and technology dollars, so that in 10 or 15 years we actually can fundamentally change the way we’re going to fight.”

The Futures Command chief also laid out two new efforts to seed understanding of AI throughout the force, saying that “a key component of the Army moving more and more into the area of artificial intelligence is the talent that we’re going to need in the formation to do that.”

Murray described a ”recently approved” masters program to be run through Carnegie Mellon University, focusing on bringing in “young officers, noncommissioned officers and warrant officers” to teach them about artificial intelligence. The course features four to five months of actual learning in the classroom, followed by five or six months working for the Army’s AI Task Force. After that, the officers are sent back the force, bringing with them their AI experience.

Additionally, Murray is in the early stages of standing up what he described as a “software factory” to try and identify individual service members who have some computer skills, pull them out of their normal rotations and give them training on “basic coding skills” before sending them back to the force.

“We’re going to need a lot of these types of people. This is just [the] beginning, to seed the Army with the types of talent we’re going to need in the future if we’re going to take advantage of data, if we’re going to take advantage of artificial intelligence in the future,” he said.


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