I don't know the technical details behind this software. But I strongly suspect this is firmly in the camp of "machine learning" rather than "AI." Big Tech's intentional confusion between those terms has caused an enormous amount of mischief over the last 10 years.

If the military had said "statistical inference using modern Big Data methods" that would have the following advantages:

  - honesty
  - officers' expectations would be more tempered and reasonable
  - public outrage would be more tempered and reasonable

Though to be fair this terminology would have the following disadvantages:

  - military tech grifters have their BS more easily called out
  - AI tech grifters have to look in the mirror and accept this is what their algorithm is
  - AI journalism grifters get less clicks
  - Hacker News conversations indulge less navel-gazing speculation about Skynet