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Human-centred artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence is becoming ever more important, not only in our day lives-to-day lives, but also in critical environments such as military theatres of operation and aerospace.
Thales is a major AI player in these complex environments. The company is Europe’s top patent applicant in the field, and devotes a lot of effort to research on AI, both in-house and through academic and industry partnerships.
Artificial intelligence as seen by Thales is human-centric, a trusted AI built on clear principles: it is secure, trusted, transparent, explainable, frugal and ethical.
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cortAIx
On 28 March 2024, Thales unveiled the creation of cortAIx.
cortAIx brings together Thales’s artificial intelligence capabilities in the fields of research, sensors and systems.
It is a veritable accelerator for trusted AI, dedicated to equipping armed forces, aircraft manufacturers and all critical infrastructure operators with highly secure solutions, to provide them with more efficient data analysis and decision support, whilst taking into account specific constraints such as cybersecurity, embeddability and frugality that are related to critical environments.
The use of AI in critical systems
From intelligence gathering and data processing to decision support and mission planning, artificial intelligence will soon become a vital element in complex environments such as military theatres of operation, civil aviation and the security of major events.
Below are some examples of how AI is used.
AI at the heart of the Rafale’s optronics system
Thanks to an embedded AI system and a neural processor developed by Thales, the images captured in flight by the Talios pod found on board Dassault Aviation’s Rafale fighter can be analysed in real time, and a hundred times faster than with the current manual search system.
Arnaud Beche, an expert in image processing, explains.
Combining performance and reliability thanks to AI
Combining optimum performance and maximum reliability is a challenge, but it is one that AI is able to meet, as Patricia Besson, Head of Thales Research & Technology’s Reasoning and Analysis in Complex Systems Lab, points out.
Provided that major research efforts are made both internally and externally to develop this trusted AI.
AI in mission planning
AI on board a helicopter or fighter aircraft cockpit can alleviate pilots’ mental workload by helping to define the best trajectory, according to the objectives of the mission and taking into account the numerous constraints that can arise at any time during its execution.
Military avionics expert Thierry Ferreira explains how.
AI serving air defence
In skies that are ever more crowded, due in particular to the increase in the number of drones, the use of artificial intelligence can simplify radar operators’ job and their decision-making.
Rami Kassab, an AI expert in the radar field, explains how.
Managing multi-drone and multi-robot systems thanks to AI
We are seeing a proliferation of drones and robots in theatres of operation. How can we get operators to manage not just one drones, but dozens of drones at the same time?
Florence Aligne, head of the Decision and Optimisation laboratory at Thales Research & Technology has the answer.
Contribution of AI to maritime patrol aircraft
Our oceans are vital to world trade, but they have once more become zones of conflict. Hence the importance of maritime patrol missions.
In the face of the amount of data gathered by radars systems that are ever more sophisticated, artificial intelligence is playing a crucial role, as radar systems architect Nicolas Léger explains.
Latest news
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Press releases
- Ahead of France's AI Action Summit, Thales unveils its latest innovations in trusted AI for critical systems (Jan. 2025)
- Thales’s Friendly Hackers unit invents metamodel to detect AI-generated deepfake images (Nov. 2024)
- Thales AI developments enhance operational performance of maritime mine countermeasures (Nov. 2024)
- Thales introduces CoastShield, a coastal surveillance system solution enabling nations to ensure coastal protection and safe maritime operations (Nov. 2024)
- Thales demonstrates its capacity to deploy drone swarms with unparalleled levels of autonomy using AI (Oct. 2024)
- Empowering drones to enhance naval operations: Thales successfully demonstrates latest innovations during Portuguese Naval military exercise (Oct. 2024)