AI and the next revolution in military defense

Last week, AlphaGo, an artificial intelligence program developed by Google's DeepMind team, beat China's top go player Ke Jie in Wuzhen, East China's Zhejiang province, which suggests AI will occupy center stage in the next technological and industrial revolution.

But what is AI's significance for the defense industry? And how to address the security challenges that AI may cause if inappropriately used in the defense sector?

AI is intelligence exhibited by machines that are made to think, work and react like humans in given situations. AI today is a combination of big data, cloud computing and internet of things.