As AI shapes the future of warfare, Ukraine has access to a valuable resource: millions of hours of drone footage that can help train AI models for battlefield decision-making.
AI has been utilized by both sides in the Ukraine conflict to identify targets, processing images much more quickly than humans.
Oleksandr Dmitriev, founder of OCHI, a Ukrainian non-profit that analyzes drone footage from the frontlines, stated that his system has gathered 2 million hours, or 228 years, of battlefield video from drones since 2022.
Dmitriev said ,"This will provide vital data for AI to learn."
"This is AI fodder: if you want to teach an AI, give it 2 million hours of video, it will become something supernatural," he added.
According to Dmitriev, the footage can be used to train models with Al in combat tactics, target detection and evaluation of the effectiveness of weapon systems.
"It's basically experience that can be turned into mathematics," he said, adding that an AI program could study the trajectories and angles at which weapons are most effective.
Reportedly, the system was originally created in 2022 to give military commanders an overview of their areas on the battlefield by showing them drone footage from all nearby crews on one screen.
After the system was introduced, the team running it realized that the video sent by the drone could be useful as a record of the war – so they started saving it.
Alternatively, Ukraine also has another system, called Avengers, developed by its defense ministry, which centralizes and collects video from drones and CCTV.
The ministry declined to provide information about this system.
However, it has previously said that Avengers detects 12,000 Russian devices a week using AI identification tools.
Thousands of drones are already using AI systems to fly at unmanned targets, and Ukraine is using the technologies to help mine its territory.
Source: The telegraph
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