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While I agree that a program could be made to build sort of counter-countermeasure, I think that we are still not conscious of all the information we get from o

While I agree that a program could be made to build sort of counter-countermeasure, I think that we are still not conscious of all the information we get from our environment thanks to our brain. And as we don't have this knowledge, we can't give it to our products, like this program. Now, let's say that we have such a program, able to reach its target most of the time. In that case, people would still have to focus on higher level tasks as you said, like global offensive strategy. Even for this task, I think that a spirit forged with mathematics will certainly be more efficient, with better logics and intuition. But my opinion might be influenced by the fact that in France, our best military schools do have high maths expectations for the entry exam.

S4M 13y ago
Well, the example of AI applied to ballistic is a bit particular as the environment - the place you are trying to bomb - will adapt to what you are doing, and thus some human intervention will always be needed, but for a more standard problem where the environment is not adaptive, say, the exploration of an unknown region, I guess an AI could be left all by itself to do some specific tasks. I think it's more relevant in the context of space exploration where sending humans is both more expensive and very risky (note: I have no idea if Curiosity is controlled by an AI or not). Off topic: I'm French as well, and yeah, Polytechnique has a high level of expectation in maths.