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Military analysts in operations centres face significant challenges in extracting relevant information from the huge volumes of data generated by multiple sources such as video and audio streams, websites, Twitter feeds, satellite imagery, social media and telephone conversations. Real-time data analytics will enable them to develop advanced military strategies with greater efficiency.
Thales, an expert in artificial intelligence, plans to implement NukkAI's solution in a number of its military data processing programmes. When operators are swamped by information, the solution will use real-time data exploitation and fusion methods to automatically review the knowledge available so that analysts can focus on elements of interest.
The explainable AI technology developed by NukkAI was put to the test during the world bridge tournament in March 2022, successfully beating eight human world champions at the well-known card game. The demonstration confirmed the potential of this approach for the development of innovative applications in various sectors of industry.
David Sadek, Vice President for Research, Technology & Innovation, who is in charge of AI projects at Thales, said: "This pilot project represents a real technological milestone for military applications of AI, enabling analysts to focus on the tasks where human beings can provide the most added value. The partnership with NukkAI is fully in line with our Thales TrUE AI approach, which favours the use of AI solutions that are trusted, safe, secure, explainable and responsible."
Jean-Baptiste Fantun, co-founder and CEO of NukkAI, added: "There are multiple use cases for our solution in cybersecurity, education, industry, banking and insurance and in any other area where data from multiple sources needs to be combined, where outcomes need to be explainable and where human operators need to retain control at all times."
New-generation AI
NukkAI's solution relies on the use of hybrid, explainable, collaborative and energy-efficient artificial intelligence methods, unlike the "black box" algorithms in widespread use today, which lack transparency and raise issues of human-machine interaction and high energy consumption.
Hybrid: NukkAI's AI uses a combination of modules relying on different paradigms of artificial intelligence, symbolic AI and digital intelligence.
Explainability: For the bridge tournament, NukkAI developed a tool to analyse game play and explain the strategy used, making it possible to transfer the robot’s skills to the human or show human how their strategy was inferior to that of the robot.
Collaboration: While “black box” AI is not designed for human-machine interaction, NukkAI’s solution can interact with humans and explain the reasons behind its choices and decisions. And it is the human who makes the decision, following suggestions made by the machine.
Energy efficiency: Developed with the support of the CNRS, which provided access to the Jean Zay the most powerful supercomputer in France the NukkAI solution that won the bridge tournament in March 2022 consumed 200,000 times less energy than the AI used to beat the world Go champion.
About NukkAI
Co-founded in 2018 by researcher Véronique Ventos and Jean-Baptiste Fantun, a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique, the French start-up NukkAI (nukk.ai) is pioneering next-generation artificial intelligence. Why is it next-generation? Because NukkAI’s AI is explainable, collaborative and consumes relatively little energy. Using bridge as a sandbox, NukkAI’s new-generation AI aims to support sectors such as education, industry, aviation and cybersecurity in their economic and digital challenges. Nukkai’s next-generation AI constantly interacts with humans, has the ability to explain its choices and decisions, and is also energy-efficient, which is crucial for the future.
NukkAI Press Contact: : Laurence Colin, Senior Manager
T: +33(0)6 49 75 47 11 - E: laurence.colin[.]gen-g.com.
About Thales
Thales (thalesgroup.com) is a global leader in advanced technologies, investing in digital and “deep tech” innovations connectivity, big data, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and quantum technologies to build a confident future crucial for the development of our societies. The Group provides its customers businesses, organisations and governments in the defence, aeronautics, space, transport, and digital identity and security domains with solutions, services and products that help them fulfil their critical role, consideration for the individual being the driving force behind all decisions. Thales has 81,000 employees in 68 countries. In 2021, the Group generated sales of €16.2 billion.
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