Ukraine is collecting vast data from literally millions of hours of drone footage of ongoing Ukraine-Russia, that will be used to train its AI models to make decisions on the battlefield. The move signifies a precursor for the coming times when artificial intelligence (AI) related technology will be major gamechanger in wars.
OCHI, a non-profit Ukrainian digital system, has been entrusted with the task of integrating and studying video feeds from over 15,000 drone crews working on the battleground in Ukraine Russia war. According to media reports, this system has collected 2 million hours, or 228 years, of battlefield video from drones since 2022. This system eventually provides massive data for AI to learn and train its models.
The system was originally made in 2022 to give military commanders an overview of their battlefield area by showing them the footage of the drones from all nearby squads side by side on the screen. After the system was turned out, the team realized that video being sent back by drones could prove useful as a record of the war so they began to store it.
Oleksandr Dmitriev, founder of OCHI said, “The footage can be used to train AI models in combat tactics, spotting targets, and assessing the effectiveness of weapons systems”.
Thousands of drones are already using AI systems to fly themselves into targets without any human pilots, and Ukraine is using these AI technologies to help win the war. Also, Ukrainian companies are developing drone swarms, where a computer system will be able to execute commands for an interlinked cloud of dozens of drones.
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