Stockdale Center Explores Artificial Intelligence - Episode Three

In 2023, the Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership commemorated the 50th anniversary of the repatriation of POWs from the Hanoi Hilton with events, a Yard-wide geocaching challenge and a nationally televised movie on PBS. In 2024 we turn our attention to the topic of artificial intelligence.
You may have already listened to our podcasts on Radio Stockdale or visited the Stockdale Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL) for resources. This is the most recent installment in a series of short films exploring the promise and peril of AI and how the Naval Academy is meeting the challenge and addressing opportunities. In episode three of our 8-part series we close out our conversation about AI implications for the educational process at the Naval Academy. While the Machine Learning Team doesn't win any prizes at the NFL's Big Data Bowl, it learns valuable lessons about the limitations of AI. Naval Academy graduate and NFL player Joe Cardona identifies a key factor AI never considered. Having the perspective of a human expert is essential to effective problem solving now and in the foreseeable future. Future episodes will explore similar factors for problem solving in war. Check back for this, and for future installments.

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Isn't one of the reasons that modern AI tools are considered so dangerous that they are getting alarmingly close to simulating human behavior? I feel like we overestimate human capability too much. Also, this video doesn't point out a failure of the AI itself in the video, but a failure of humans to use said AI effectively due to a lack of proper research that was compounded by time restraints (ironically, something that they said AI helped them with). I understand and would even like to support the idea that this video attempts to argue but I feel that it fails to provide any effective evidence and just provides a bunch of bland assertions that humans need human interaction without addressing the fact that AI is absolutely capable of simulating that to a degree that we can no longer distinguish it from the real thing. I understand that AI is an imperfect tool right now, but I feel like we are kidding ourselves when we say that it can't replace humans. It absolutely can. We aren't so special and intelligent that we can just discount the fact that AI will eventually make humanity obsolete.