Open-source algorithms are disrupting the meaning of global artificial intelligence (AI) leadership. Here’s how the US government can use the next wave of AI to its advantage.
What does it mean to be first in developing applications of artificial intelligence (AI), and does it matter? In a recent interview, the former Chief Software Officer of the U.S. Air Force Nicolas Chaillan stated that he resigned in part because he believed that, “We have no competing chance against China in fifteen to twenty years. Right now, it’s already a done deal; it is already over.” He reasoned that a failure of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to follow through on stated intentions to build up in AI and cyber means many departments within DoD still operate at what Chaillan considers a “kindergarten level.” Those are strong words, but Chaillan’s overall assessment misses the mark—the United States becoming an AI also-ran is not a foregone conclusion. Leadership in AI is not necessarily achieved by the first adopter.
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JAIC chief wants AI progress to be ‘slow and incremental’
The Department of Defense’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center is looking to field AI across the military slowly, so products can be broadly usable across combatant commands, the center’s director said Friday.
That mindset appears to be different from some innovative upstart organizations within the government that have emphasized the private-sector mentality of speed and agility in finding solutions to pressing challenges. Growth for the center’s AI tools will come from solutions to common challenges that senior leaders across the military face, JAIC Director Lt. Gen. Michael Groen said during the Billington Cybersecurity Summit. Read More
Pentagon Experimenting With AI To ‘Predict The Future’
The Pentagon is reportedly experimenting with AI and other cutting edge technology in the hope of being able to ‘predict the future’.
Turns out you don’t need a Tardis anymore to see into the future, as the US has come up with the possible technological solution to actually be able to ‘see days in advance’, reports suggest.
The Pentagon, headquarter building of the United States Department of Defence, is said to have conducted a series of tests in an attempt to ‘achieve information dominance’ and ‘decision-making superiority’. Read More
Cheat-maker brags of computer-vision auto-aim that works on “any game”
When it comes to the cat-and-mouse game of stopping cheaters in online games, anti-cheat efforts often rely in part on technology that ensures the wider system running the game itself isn’t compromised. On the PC, that can mean so-called “kernel-level drivers” which monitor system memory for modifications that could affect the game’s intended operation. On consoles, that can mean relying on system-level security that prevents unsigned code from being run at all (until and unless the system is effectively hacked, that is).
But there’s a growing category of cheating methods that can now effectively get around these forms of detection in many first-person shooters. By using external tools like capture cards and “emulated input” devices, along with machine learning-powered computer vision software running on a separate computer, these cheating engines totally circumvent the secure environments set up by PC and console game makers. This is forcing the developers behind these games to look to alternate methods to detect and stop these cheaters in their tracks. Read More
DOD Launches Project to Quickly Shift AI from Labs to Real-World Warfighting
The Defense Department has a new plan to speed up its adoption of artificial intelligence technologies. The A-I and Data Acceleration Initiative – or ADA – formally launched this week. It includes four lines of effort, all designed to make sure DoD isn’t just working with A-I in experimental settings, but moving it into practical applications in combatant commands around the world. Federal News Network’s Jared Serbu has details. Read More
SecDef Austin Speaks at AI Technology Summit
Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III delivered remarks at the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence’s 2021 Global Emerging Technology Summit.
Austin discusses some of the changes that he sees coming to the Department of Defense with respect to artificial intelligence, and the way they represent changes to some old ways of thinking. Read More
Chinese Pilots Are Also Dueling With AI Opponents In Simulated Dogfights And Losing: Report
A recent Chinese state media report claims that pilots from the country’s air force have been losing a not insignificant amount of the time to artificial intelligence-driven opponents in simulated dogfights. This sounds reminiscent of the very public outcome of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s AlphaDogfight Trials last year, work that has since been leveraged in more advanced demonstrations. It also underscores the People’s Liberation Army’s growing interest and investment in the development of advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies, generally. Read More
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The Air Force’s AI Brain Just Flew for the First Time
The U.S. Air Force just took a major step toward a future crowded with AI-powered warplanes.
Late last month, the Air Force’s new Skyborg Autonomy Core System (ACS) flew a pilotless drone over Florida and the Gulf of Mexico, proving the AI could adhere to basic flight commands. The system will eventually lead to high-speed drones, powered by Skyborg, equipped with sensors, weapons, and other payloads to accomplish lonely—and dangerous—jobs that manned fighters used to carry out. Read More
Cyberspace Is Neither Just an Intelligence Contest, nor a Domain of Military Conflict; SolarWinds Shows Us Why It’s Both
Operations in cyberspace—at least those perpetrated by nation-state actors and their proxies—reflect the geopolitical calculations of the actors who carry them out. Strategic interactions between rivals in cyberspace have been argued by some, like Joshua Rovner or Jon Lindsay, to reflect an intelligence contest. Others, like Jason Healey and Robert Jervis, have suggested that cyberspace is largely a domain of warfare or conflict. The contours of this debate as applied to the SolarWinds campaign have been outlined recently—Melissa Griffith shows how cyberspace is sometimes an intelligence contest, and other times a domain of conflict, depending on the strategic approaches and priorities of particular actors at a given moment in time.
Therefore, rather than focusing on the binary issue of whether a warfare versus intelligence framework is more applicable to cyberspace, the fact that activity in cyberspace takes on both of these characteristics at different times raises interesting questions about how these dimensions relate to one another at the operational level. Read More
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