Pentagon wants autonomous surveillance vehicles that can distinguish friend from foe in urban areas
Soldiers operating in urban environments have to make quick decisions when assessing whether someone means to do them harm or...
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DARPA sets sights on making AI self-aware of complex time dimensions
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is setting its sights on developing an AI system with a detailed self-understanding...
Joint AI Center hosts first-ever AI Partnership for Defense with 12 other nations
The Pentagon's Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) hosts the first-ever AI Partnership for Defense with 12 other nations, with hopes...
Pentagon is close to enterprise-wide infrastructure to deploy AI at scale: DoD AI Symposium
The Pentagon is close to having a enterprise-wide AI infrastructure that can be deployed at scale, and could one day...
JAIC to launch ‘first-ever AI partnership for defense’ with more than 10 nations: US defense secretary
The Pentagon's Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) will launch the first-ever AI partnership for defense with military and defense organizations...
How AI can impact healthcare, workflows & manufacturing after COVID-19
The crisis caused by COVID-19 has forced many people to adapt to significant lifestyle and work changes; however, given the...
AI governance and the future of humanity with the Rockefeller Foundation’s senior VP of innovation
As the progenitors of artificial intelligence, how we care for and nurture this paradigm-shifting technology will determine how it grows...
Pentagon taps private sector to develop drone swarms that can track people, objects in congested areas
The Pentagon's Defense Innovation Unit is calling on the private sector to develop autonomous drones that can track people, vehicles,...
Ex-CERN scientist on leveraging AI to accelerate language learning (Brains Byte Back podcast)
Being able to speak and understand a foreign language is a lot like having a superpower. It gives you an...
Global Esports Federation, ITU to launch global dialogue on esports & sustainability
The Global Esports Federation partners with the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) to launch a global dialogue on esports as part...
AI will permeate the Pentagon ‘from cyberspace to outer space, everywhere between’: JAIC director
The director of the Pentagon's Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) says that the foundations are being laid to have AI...
DARPA chooses AI teams to hack video games like StarCraft II to advance Pentagon war game scenarios
DARPA is looking to the gaming industry for inspiration on different ways to leverage AI, with a specific focus on...
The challenges of making data-driven decisions in Puerto Rico in times of crisis
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Puerto Rico has been in the grips of a financial crisis for over a decade, during which it has experienced...
US Army is putting all its AI eggs in one basket, AI in every system
The fact that AI can behave unexpectedly isn't preventing the US Army from putting all its AI eggs in one...
‘AI needs to span every battle system we have’: US Army AI Task Force director
AI "needs to span every battlefield system that we have, from our maneuver systems for our fire control systems to...
National AI Research Institutes launches with $200M in grants for societal benefit
The National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes is launching today to fund $200 million in grants over the coming years, which...
Deepfakes: when seeing is no longer believing on Brains Byte Back
Thanks to AI, seeing is no longer believing. This technology has given birth to deepfakes, false videos that seem really,...
AI breaks simulated laws of physics to win at hide and seek
AI is finding unexpected ways to win a simulated game of hide and seek, even breaking the simulated laws of...
Could quantum computing and exotic materials facilitate AI-human cyborgs?
Inserting a hard electronic chip into a squishy organic brain is a bit like fitting a square peg in a...
MIT prof on being human in an AI world on Brains Byte Back
The man in this episode might be one of the smartest minds we have ever had on this show. Not...
