News Washington D.C. gets AI-enabled air defense camera upgrade — new system replaces 22-year-old cameras installed after 9/11

[Admin]

The U.S. is getting new air defense cameras that use machine learning to help track and identify aircraft flying in or around the Washington metropolitan area.

Washington D.C. gets AI-enabled air defense camera upgrade — new system replaces 22-year-old cameras installed after 9/11 : Read more

 

[bit_user]

while Chinese researchers have used Meta’s Llama AI model to build an intelligence chatbot. Let’s just hope that our military leaders do not rely solely on AI for crucial decisions, especially as Jensen himself says that the solution to the AI hallucination problem is still several years away.

This has nothing to do with that system. It's using AI only for object classification (e.g. bird, plane, drone, kite, etc.) and perhaps to aid in target tracking (i.e. keeping the object centered), which is a feature you can now find even in commodity video surveillance cameras. From the sound of it, the identity of all objects is being visually confirmed by humans, before they decide on any action to take.

Again, from the article:

"the tracking system will make it easier for the operators to follow a tracked object, giving them more time to assess its intentions instead of trying to hold the camera steady on the airplane."
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BTW, I thought the idea of illuminating the cockpit sounded pretty interesting, too. Perhaps AI is also used to find the cockpit windows and keep the laser trained on them.

 

[DS426]

I appreciate the explanation provided by the NCOIC of Capabilities and Requirements of JADOC for this ERSA as closely monitored by the EADS and thanks to the commissioning by the DOD. Oh and AI, just because.

L - 0 - L 🤣

Seriously though, looks fancy, is hopefully effective, and probably costs as much as a hypercar.

 

[bit_user]

Seriously though, looks fancy, is hopefully effective, and probably costs as much as a hypercar.

Oh, more than that, I'd say. Given the low unit volumes and amount of development + testing time needed, it could be much more. I'd be curious to know where else they're deploying such systems, though I assume we'll never find out.

 

[williamcll]

Didn't they found out a week or two ago you can avoid AI cameras by walking in a box Metal gear style?

 

[bit_user]

Didn't they found out a week or two ago you can avoid AI cameras by walking in a box Metal gear style?

Anything that makes you look different than what AI cameras know how to recognize can probably help you avoid them. That isn't really news.

In this case, it sounds like the cameras are coupled to a radar-based detection system. The main purpose of camera is to zoom in on the object, so that the operators can get visual confirmation of what it is. AI can help them by suggesting what it thinks the object is, but it's really up to the operator to make the ultimate call.

So, the only way you're going to avoid detection is by using a stealth craft that doesn't even get picked up by the radar.

 

[SilverStar Heggisist]

Anything that makes you look different than what AI cameras know how to recognize can probably help you avoid them. That isn't really news.

In this case, it sounds like the cameras are coupled to a radar-based detection system. The main purpose of camera is to zoom in on the object, so that the operators can get visual confirmation of what it is. AI can help them by suggesting what it thinks the object is, but it's really up to the operator to make the ultimate call.

So, the only way you're going to avoid detection is by using a stealth craft that doesn't even get picked up by the radar.

And this is likely specifically geared towards that. Stealth aircraft are not invisible to radar, show up as small bogies that are usually dismissed by the radar's filter. I read an article about India scrambling fighters over what turned out to be birds that they saw on radar and thought were stealth aircraft.

It would be expensive to keep launching fighters to intercept birds.

Similarly it could be used to zoom in on drones. A F16 is gonna do squat against a quad copter and before going all crazy it might make sense to see if that lil drone is a nano that's likely a tourist taking pictures of the city or a terrorists carrying a grenade or something under it.

 

[USAFRet]

Similarly it could be used to zoom in on drones. A F16 is gonna do squat against a quad copter and before going all crazy it might make sense to see if that lil drone is a nano that's likely a tourist taking pictures of the city or a terrorists carrying a grenade or something under it.

Well, the whole of the DC area is restricted airspace.
https://airaware.aloft.ai/?lat=38.870572146558686&long=-77.02175540910791

UAS flying is severely restricted. If you have a DJI, the geofencing won't even let it leave the ground without express permission.