The submariners are worried. Until now, the depth and complexity of the maritime environment made their ships almost undetectable. Deterrence relies heavily on this invulnerability, which guarantees a retaliatory strike. But in the research offices of start-ups specialising in artificial intelligence or those of tech giants, engineers who have never done their military service are under no illusions: an artificial intelligence will sooner or later be able to flush out the tiny sound of a submarine in the hubbub of the ocean.
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"When it comes to acoustic detection, we're in the pre-Alexa era," says one expert on the subject, referring to Amazon's personal voice assistant launched in 2014. In its early days, the machine made people smile with its approximations. Since then, technology has advanced. It only takes a few months to make decisive progress in AI. "You can dictate almost anything to her and she understands it," they say...
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