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Introduction 1. During my school days, I was deeply impressed with my  English teacher, Mr Julius Paul Karikalan. He was very keen that we all fell in love with Shakespeare. As a young boy, I was trained to play the role of Julius Caesar for the school day. Cassius Clay, a lean and famished-looking guy, was the first courtier to drive a knife into Caesar when the court decides to do so for the good of Rome. Julius Caesar had earlier said the following to Mark Antony (probably his only true friend):-  2.  At the end of this series of Tech Juice articles, I do not want some established players in the military equipment business and planners of regiments raised from them, to feel this way about me.   While I do think a lot, I am not thin, I sleep well and I am not dangerous.  The future battlefield is difficult to predict particularly at this time of rapid technological change.   It is, however, dangerous not to try and prepare for an uncertain futur...

Background 1. ChatGPT and other Pre-trained Transformer solutions have now become ubiquitous with a chatbot-like interface, taking in questions in conversational style (like Alexa or Siri),  and providing intelligent responses formatted for direct use. When Microsoft linked this with their browser, they started an AI war with Google.  2.  Google was forced to bring up its version of AI to stay ahead of the stock market, and Bard was revealed to the world. Unlike ChatGPT, Bard has already digested the information on the internet and kept incrementally learning. It had already formed a human-like model to transform knowledge into intelligence and respond uniquely as if it were a person. Bard shocked audiences around the world with replies to queries like "summarize the New Testament" or "translate the summary into Latin" etc.   3.  Legend has it that Ernest Hemingway won a bet by writing a six word story "For sale.  Baby Shoes.  Never worn".  ...

Introduction 1.  Disruption in military doctrines by technology is not new.  We have constantly been subjected to it.  However, the pace of disruption due to what we call Industry 4.0 technologies is rapid and far-reaching.  Humans with our inherited genetics can be expected to first apply these technologies to war.  We usually make the mistake that the nature of warfare is relatively static and technology only refines and improves the instruments of war.  Industry 4.0 technologies will not just improve the instruments of war but change the very nature of war itself.  Even preceding these technologies, many new facets of warfare, such as electronic, cyber and information warfare, have already become prevalent.    2.  I have covered some technologies in Tech Juice articles 2501-2510.  These are not exhaustive and attempt to give a flavor of what we are talking about.  The impact of equipment maintenance and availability is a maj...

1.  Industry 4.0 is the new version of an industry that has emerged through the influence of technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (Machine learning), the Internet of Things (IoT), additive manufacturing (3D printing), Robotics, Digital Twins, etc.   The impact of these technologies on material science has been immense.  Their ability to estimate, learn, simulate and build entirely from a knowledge base has transformed the industry's ability to discover new materials, deploy them on applications, monitor their performance through a lifecycle and update learning to repeat this cycle better than before is truly a major impact. Accelerated Advanced Material Development 2. For example, traditional aluminium alloys (Al7075/Al6061) are unsuitable for 3D printing as they are prone to cracking.  Boeing  used the magic of AI, Machine Learning, Big data, modelling, and simulation to  accelerate the development  of HRL Laboratories' HRL7A77 aluminium ...