Joint Artificial Intelligence Center Embarks on Next Chapter

The Pentagon's Joint Artificial Intelligence Center is accelerating work as it moves toward what its new director calls "JAIC 2.0." Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Michael Groen -- who took the helm of the organization Oct. 1 -- said the center aims to implement transformational change. "The early days of the JAIC were all about building AI -- solving mostly small problems or small AIs, connecting data sources to problems, to algorithms," he said Nov. 6. "We were really about products, … [and] it was seeding the environment to kind of show what was possible." While the center's 30-plus different projects are all valuable, making products only is not sufficient to transform the Defense Department, he said during an online event hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank.