Hamas assault on Israel shows surprise still possible in AI era: Peter Apps

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Oct 9 (Reuters) - On Sept. 27, barely a week before Hamas fighters launched the largest surprise attack on Israel since the 1973 Yom Kippur war, Israeli officials took the chair of NATO's military committee to the Gaza border to demonstrate their use of artificial intelligence and high-tech surveillance. Israeli officials publicly spoke of using such technology in their last major war in Gaza in 2021, and both its best AI and latest drones are doubtless again helping select and destroy targets in the territory. The failure of those systems to deliver advanced warning of Saturday's Hamas attack, however, represents...