华盛顿——最近签订的一份合同显示，美国海军正在增强其人工智能能力，以在霍尔木兹海峡搜寻伊朗水雷，霍尔木兹海峡是世界上最重要的航道之一。 唐纳德·特朗普总统表示，美国海军正在清除该海峡的伊朗地雷，该海峡是石油运输的重要海上航线，其中断正日益威胁着全球经济。尽管美国和伊朗在长达数周的战争中实现了脆弱的停火，但清除水下爆炸物可能需要几个月的时间。 旧金山人工智能公司多米诺数据实验室签订的高达 1 亿美元的合同可以通过软件加速这一过程，该软件可以教会水下无人机在几天内识别新型水雷。 “阿尔法”部队和更多舰艇：代理海军部长曹洪概述了服役愿景 “Mine-hunting used to be a job for ships,” Thomas Robinson, Domino’s chief operating officer, said in an interview with Reuters. “It’s becoming a job for AI. The Navy is paying for the platform that lets it train, govern, and field that AI at a speed required for contested waters that block global trade and imperil sailors.” Last week, the U.S. Navy awarded the up to $99.7 million contract to expand Domino’s role as the AI backbone of the Navy’s Project AMMO - Accelerated Machine Learning for Maritime Operations - a program to make underwater mine detection faster, more accurate, and less dependent on human sailors. The software integrates data from multiple sensor types, including side-scan sonar and visual imaging systems, and allows the Navy to monitor how well various AI detection models are performing in the field, identify failures, and push corrections to improve performance. 多米诺骨牌的核心以及海军的赌注是速度。 Before the company’s involvement, updating the AI models that power the Navy’s unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) to recognize new or previously unseen mines could take up to six months.多米诺表示，它已将这个周期缩短到几天。 Robinson illustrated the relevance to the Middle East crisis: “If there were UUVs in the Baltic Sea trained on Russian mines, and then they needed to be deployed to the Strait of Hormuz to detect Iranian mines, with Domino’s technology, the Navy could be ready in a week rather than a year.” A Navy spokesman was not immediately able to provide comment.