With all the talk about Artificial Intelligence, little has been said about developments or quality protocols in data management. And with a technology that is only as good as the data that enables …
Can this AI find a terrorist in a surveillance video?
American video analytics firm IronYun recently pitched AI software that can screen live feeds simultaneously (or historical video data) and make it searchable for items and people in the videos. For …
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Is informationalization the modern equivalent of industrialization? How the U.S. Should Respond to China’s Informatization Strategy
Is “informationalization" the modern equivalent of industrialization? Chinese President Xi Jinping thinks so. In the same way that industrialization reshaped the economic structure of human life and …
The Future of AI Policy is Largely Unwritten
Congressman Will Hurd has emerged as one of America's leading technologist legislators by tackling issues like quantum computing, cyber security, AI, and Homeland security enabling technologies like …
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China Will Close Artificial Intelligence Gap by End of 2018, Lawmakers Warn
"Artificial intelligence technologies are capable of disrupting every aspect of society and the United States must do more to maintain leadership in the area, the leaders of a House panel said in a …
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An Air Force ‘Way of Swarm’: Using Wargaming and Artificial Intelligence to Train Drones
Animals swarms in nature are providing insight into U.S. military development of drone swarms operating outside of a centralized command system. War on the Rocks writes, “now imagine being able to …
3 Ways Intelligence Agencies Are Using AI
The 17 agencies that comprise the U.S. intelligence community (IC) are working to improve interaction between each other and the exponentially increasing troves of data through what an IC deputy CIO …
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Technological entanglement
An interesting paper from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute looking at issues of entanglement and dual-use technologies framed from the particular perspective of China and Artificial …
Google’s Withdrawal from Pentagon AI Project Risks U.S. Lives, Says former Deputy Defense Secretary
“Google’s decision to withdraw from some Pentagon business following an internal revolt is creating a moral hazard for itself and its employees, former Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work said.” At the …
Machine learning improving diagnosis of Zika and other pathogens
Combining artificial intelligence with mass spectrometry, scientists have developed a platform able to diagnose Zika virus with an accuracy above 95%, even as the virus mutates and over a time range …
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