Artificial intelligence == ML/CV/NLP (not the AGI) will transform the world over the next two decades. People vastly underestimate importance of recent advances in detection/recognition/NLU tasks.<p>Sure it sounds boring by some sci-fi standards but when it comes to warfare ability to deploy cheap drones that can do near real time enemy identification will transform not just the battelfield but the entire society. Look at the current heated debate on Police stops leading to shooting. In less than a decade we will have autonomous cop car capable of disabling vehicles and firing tasers.<p>The world will be completely transformed just with todays state of the art tech. All it currently lacks are "platforms" for deployments.
I have found the source video. Here is a link to the relevant part: <a href="https://youtu.be/iXXHVZIkw9Y?t=3296" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/iXXHVZIkw9Y?t=3296</a><p>He is actually talking not about AI in general, but about self-driving technologies and drones.
In another piece of news:<p>China to add AI courses in primary education<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15154289" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15154289</a><p>Where does the US stand? Any serious plans by its leaders and the government?
Why is this flagged? If this was Musk or Page instead of Putin it would've been on the front page with 1000 comments.<p>You can dislike Putin because of his actions but you cannot deem his opinion irrelevant.
Don't get me wrong, I fully subscribe to the school of thought that he's a murderer, but honestly, drones fighting drones sounds pretty good.
Yet the actual purpose of this statement is lost on most.<p>Using popular concepts to plausibly question the sustainable dominance of others in the geopolitical power-game. It really doesn't matter if this statement proves accurate or not in the future.<p>"Artificial intelligence" is an interchangeable subject for the purposes of that statement. It's Psy Ops 101. A non-falsifiable piece of propaganda, used to undermine and chip-away at assumptions, which is particularly useful for sowing doubt in perceived institutional strength and their ability to sustain success when new variables are introduced.<p>In short, swap "AI" for any emerging subject matter or previously unaddressed and now relevant issue and you can make the same statement, in perpetuity, as ammunition against your opponents.
This is especially true when combined with mass surveillance, domestically and abroad. Huge trove of data that is likely already being mined with machine learning and other techniques.
Dude is 64 years old, and was never seen using a computer. Give him a break on this one, he's likely just parroting Medvedev, who in turn is parroting one of his distant underlings.