China’s military successfully uses AI WARSHIP design program to do a year’s worth of work in a TAG, as Beijing seeks to create a navy more powerful than America’s

A Chinese research team claims they used an AI program to design a warship’s electrical system in a day — a task that would take a team of people with advanced computing tools nearly a year to complete.

A study published last month in the Chinese journal Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems says the AI ​​designer performed all its tasks with 100 percent accuracy and raced through complex design problems.

China’s Naval Design and Research Center said the AI ​​had perfected more than 400 challenging design tasks, prompting senior engineer Luo Wei to declare that the program was “ready for engineering applications” in China’s shipbuilding industry to speed up the production rate of warships. increase. improve. Increase.

The shocking news comes just weeks after the US Navy Secretary warned that China’s naval fleet has surpassed America’s and is growing faster than US manufacturers can match.

Additionally, Wei’s team told the magazine that ship design, not production capacity, is the main factor limiting new ship production, according to the South China Morning Post, suggesting that AI design programs could dramatically slow China’s naval development.

The navies of China and the US differ significantly, but China’s production of new ships exceeds that of the US

The Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning is pictured on the right

“It is no secret that the People’s Republic of China is trying to overthrow our dominance of the world’s oceans,” he said. Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro in a speech at the National Press Club in Washington DC last month.

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Del Toro said China’s navy recently added more than 100 fighter jets to its fleet, calling it “a naval buildup that is an important part of its increasingly aggressive global military posture.”

According to Del Toro, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy now has about 340 ships. The US Navy says its fleet contains “more than 290 operational ships” and although the exact number is unclear, the number is less than 300.

Del Toro said China plans to have a fleet of 440 ships in line by 2030, well ahead of the Pentagon’s goal of manning 350 ships by 2045.

In recent years, China has become increasingly aggressive in the South China Sea, a vast ocean that China claims as its own, although the claim is not recognized under international law.

‘China’s disregard for the rules-based international order is particularly troubling in the maritime sphere, from the Taiwan Strait to the high seas,” said Del Toro.

“The values ​​of the Chinese Communist Party are incompatible with individual freedom, democracy and respect for human rights,” he added.

Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro (right) sounded the alarm that China’s navy is outpacing America’s fleet of ships and growing faster than the US can currently match

The US Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Erie (CG-70) is seen in a file photo

The U.S. Navy’s fleet size likely won’t reach 350 before the 2040s, according to the Navy’s latest projections, seen in a CBO report Wednesday

CBO documents outline the Navy’s shipbuilding plans for the next few years. The fleet is likely to shrink before it grows as old ships are retired

The navy minister claimed to reporters that China’s shipbuilding capacity far exceeds that of the US, saying China has 13 shipyards, including one with a shipbuilding capacity greater than all US shipyards combined.

The US has a huge advantage in aircraft carriers, with the navy having 11 to China’s three. China is also struggling to train enough fighters to properly man its aircraft carriers.

However, experts say that in a major naval war, the larger total fleet almost always has a decisive advantage.

Sam Tangredi, the Leidos Chair in Future Warfare Studies at the US Naval War College and a former US Navy captain, issued such a warning in the January issue of the US Naval Institute’s Proceedings journal.

His analysis of 25 historical naval wars showed that the side with the larger fleet won in all three cases.

“In a war between equally capable technologically close colleagues – without a series of amazing strokes of luck – the larger fleet has always won,” he wrote.