Overview
- A unique formal exploration that bridges the literatures on military strategy and real-time artificial intelligence
- An extension of the Data Rate Theorem linking information and control theories
- An extension of both information and control theory formalism to ‘nonergodic’ cognitive systems, much in the sense that nonparametric statistics extend the normal parametric version
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology (BRIEFSAPPLSCIENCES)
Part of the book sub series: SpringerBriefs in Computational Intelligence (BRIEFSINTELL)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Artificial Intelligence
- cognitive failure
- information theory
- control theory
- Data Rate Theorem
- phase transition
- groupoid
- stochastic differential equation
- Clausewitz
- fog-of-war
- friction; combat; real-time
- renormalization
- free energy; Onsager
- nonequilibrium thermodynamics
- optimization theory
- symmetry breaking
- Black-Scholes model
- operational scale
- Morse Function
- entropy
About this book
The language of business is the language of dreams, but the language of war is the language of nightmare made real. Yet business dreams of driverless cars on intelligent roads, and of other real-time critical systems under the control of algorithmic entities, have much of war about them. Such systems, including military institutions at the tactical, operational and strategic scales, act on rapidly-shifting roadway topologies whose ‘traffic rules’ can rapidly change. War is never without both casualty and collateral damage, and realtime critical systems of any nature will inevitably partake of fog-of-war and frictional challenges almost exactly similar to those that have made warfare intractable for modern states. Into the world of Carl von Clausewitz, John Boyd, Mao Tse-Tung, Vo Nguyen Giap and Genghis Khan, come the brash, bright-eyed techies of Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, and Uber who forthrightly step in where a phalanx of angels has not feared to tread, but treaded badly indeed. In this book we use cutting-edge tools from information and control theories to examine canonical and idiosyncratic failure modes of real-time cognitive systems facing fog-of-war and frictional constraints. In sum, nobody ever navigates, or can navigate, the landscapes of Carl von Clausewitz unscathed.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Carl von Clausewitz, the Fog-of-War, and the AI Revolution
Book Subtitle: The Real World Is Not A Game Of Go
Authors: Rodrick Wallace
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74633-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-74632-6Published: 26 January 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-74633-3Published: 21 January 2018
Series ISSN: 2191-530X
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5318
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 102
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Computational Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, Control and Systems Theory, Military and Defence Studies