US Army leaders say soldiers are drowning in so much battlefield data that AI is needed to make sense of it all

"Army leaders say the modern battlefield is so saturated with sensors and networked weapons generating more data than soldiers can realistically process on their own that artificial intelligence is needed to meaningfully sort it all. For years, the Army's focus was on fielding more sensors for battlefield information and awareness, but now the service is also having to think about information overload and managing the massive amounts of data coming in."

""The modern battlefield, what we're already seeing across the globe, it is swimming in sensors, and we are drowning in data," Col. Jeff Pickler, the Army 2nd Multi-Domain Task Force commander, said at a media roundtable on Dynamic Front. There aren't enough people to decipher all the available information, he said. "They will never be able to fully process all of that.""

The modern battlefield is saturated with sensors and networked weapons producing far more data than soldiers can manually process. The Army is shifting from simply fielding more sensors to addressing information overload and data management. During a US Army and NATO exercise in Europe, troops employed a homegrown AI system to consume, sort, and retain contextual patterns across incoming data. The AI's value included remembering context and connections that humans might forget or miss. The software remains in beta testing. Army leaders plan a larger-scale test in the next Dynamic Front iteration, which will merge with Arcane Front to pair technology experimentation with theater-level rehearsals.

Read at Business Insider