Pentagon using AI to predict future for 'days of advanced warning' on attacks on sensitive sites

The Pentagon is stealing a page from Minority Report with an experimental artificial-intelligence program that can look'days in advance' and predict possible attacks on vulnerable locations. The Global Information Dominance Experiments, or GIDE, use machine learning to sift through vast amounts of data to notice tiny changes that humans might miss - such as the number of cars increasing or decreasing in a parking lot - which might indicate an evolving threat. The program can then alert human agents who can take a closer look at the location. The latest experiment - GIDE 3 - focused on'contested logistics', in a scenario where lines of communication in the Panama Canal were compromised, military officials said. General Glen VanHerck, commander of the US Northern Command (NORTHCOM), said GIDE combines artificial intelligence and cloud computing resources with data from sources around the world to'achieve information dominance' and'decision-making superiority.'