Intelligence Agencies Bank on AI, Social Media to Process Data

It's no secret that agencies like the NSA, FBI, and CIA have been collecting unfathomable amounts of information for decades. For example, even well before the age of Big Data, J. Edgar Hoover collected and recorded information by hand beginning in the 1920s. After over half a century of amassing information, the next step will be to organize it, because what good is having all of that data unless you know how to use it? How will these agencies start to organize this information into actionable intel? According to Dawn Meyerriecks, the CIA's deputy director for science and technology, the Agency has 137 projects directly related to artificial intelligence (AI).