Artificial Intelligence: Not Science Fiction, but Science Reality–Part 2 – MeriTalk

Artificial intelligence (AI) deployments in the Federal government are already making government smarter, based on examples shared during the second of a three-part series on AI launched last month by the House Subcommittee on Information Technology. Federal agency leaders from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the General Services Administration (GSA), National Science Foundation (NSF), and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) discussed how AI is being implemented to improve the mission of their agencies and what is required to ensure the technology continues to be viewed as a problem solver. Cautioning against overstating its capabilities and suggesting that AI research should begin with a problem that must be solved, John Everett, deputy director, Information Innovation Office at DARPA said, "I think there's a temptation to think of AI as magic, and capable of solving all our problems." "When it comes to implementing something that would be effective for the Federal government, I think it's important to take the perspective of first understanding what the actual problems are and then working our way back on how AI can actually address those problems." James Kurose, assistant director of NSF for Computer and Information Science and Engineering noted that AI research required experts to impact mission.