The talk's moderator was Mr. Michael E. O'Hanlon of Brookings, who solicited questions for Admiral Lunday from the audience. The session was held 10 AM online and with an audience on August 7th, 2024, Wednesday.
Admiral Lunday is currently stationed in the Pacific around the South China Sea, I understand. The US has an maritime interest to keep the sea waters open for international commerce. It is also involved in addressing the needs and opportunities to serve the Pacific islands in the area, including the island fisheries and supply chains at ports-of-call. China is very active in the region, establishing and serving the islands as well including the major countries of Indonesia, India, Japan, Malaysia, and S. Korea.
Recently, the United States has extended countries in this area, the opportunity to do trading with the United States, having long established trade with the larger countries already, but reaching out to the many islands in the Pacific rim.
Admiral Lunday brought us up to speed in the nature of the Coast Guard's assigned responsibilities in the region, which I took is to develop trading partners with the smaller islands and assure right-of-way passage of the international waterways, particularly, the South China Seas.
He noted for us that the United States smaller-sized boats visited ports-of-call in the region regularly, for ship repair and servicing, and to interest the countries, typically islands dotting the Pacific, in becoming US trading partners, e.g. the Marshall Islands. Though he did not mention that the Chinese are also doing likewise, it is well known that many of these islands have been trade friends of China for over several centuries, now.
Admiral Lunday brought out to our attention that while the current wave of computer development is dedicated in the business world to Artificial Intelligence utilization, the military has not been caught up in the current thrust to develop this radical, all-encompassing analysis and recommendation-making energy-guzzling, cyber utilization package.
One is reminded that in the incipient stages of computer usage, during the WWII years, military personnel were instrumental in doing the testing of computer features. I suppose, the costs of doing that with AI technology could be expensive, if not prohibitive, due to its comprehensive analyses.
However, the field of AI usage could really use the exhaustive testing of the software that AI needs, since it runs robots, assisting human labor, as well as makes recommendations for further development.
I've heard that some major software firms may offer at modest cost their platforms to speed up the quality assurance process.
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