Forget about AI for now -- the Army is focused on getting to the cloud - FedScoop

Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy isn't ready to invest in the hype around artificial intelligence just yet. Rather, he's set the Army's focus for the next two years on acquiring the cloud architecture that can serve as the foundation for AI in the future. Expect to see more action and discussion around cloud than on AI in the Army "because you've got to put the horse in front of the cart in order to pull it," McCarthy said Thursday at an AEI event. "Cloud has to happen to maximize AI," he said. But if you talk to the people in the financial industry who basically did it first, the online trading with writing in an algorithm that helps you make a decision on whether to buy a barrel of oil or not -- that's from cloud architecture.