Carl Von Clausewitz, The Fog-of-war, And The Ai Revolution: The Real World Is Not A Game Of Go (springerbriefs In Applied Sciences And Technology)
by Rodrick Wallace /
2018 / English / PDF
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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.
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.