Pentagon ramps up artificial intelligence efforts - SpaceNews.com

This article originally appeared in the April 23, 2018 issue of SpaceNews magazine. The tech industry has software tools that can pore over a thousand images per minute and identify objects with 99-percent accuracy. The Pentagon badly wants this technology, and sees it as essential to military combat capability as bombs and missiles. "How can I leverage the innovation happening in AI?" asked Gen. Stephen Wilson, vice chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force. The military and intelligence agencies have sought to bring artificial intelligence into areas like data mining and autonomous vehicles.