Putin’s dream of 'ruling world' with invincible hi-tech AI army 'in tatters’ after ban

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Vladimir Putin has suffered a major setback in his plan to “become the ruler of the world”, an expert has said. The warmonger said in 2017 that whoever can win the race to powerful artificially intelligent weaponry would be able to dominate globally, creating a military that would be invincible.

Putin matched this claim with big increases in spending on AI technology - but now his hopes have been dashed since his brazen invasion of Ukraine in February. READ MORE: Meghan Markle's estranged dad hits out at her claims she 'lost him' in furious rant According to AI expert and Solidus AI Tech investor Herbert Sim, despite Russia having made progress in creating its own AI hardware, much of these leaps forward have been dependent on the West.Since the invasion, leading Western microchip makers including Nvidia and AMD have both stopped selling their products to Russia.Without this tech coming into the country, developments in Russia in the AI sector have most likely stalled.“Russian weapons manufacturers like Kalashnikov love to boast about their latest piece of technology and if they had a fully-autonomous AI system we would have heard about it,” Mr Sim said.“The Russians would be flaunting it, sharing videos of its successes on the battlefield and claiming that it was helping them win the war in Ukraine.“In March they claimed a small kamikaze drone called KUB-BLA could identify and hit targets without human interference.”He continued: “If it could, there would be plenty of evidence and the Russians would be the first ones sharing it.“But we haven't, which suggests to me that it isn’t as autonomous as they claim, if at all.