The US Air Force Life Cycle Management Center has awarded L3Harris Technologies a multimillion-dollar contract to develop a software platform to make it easier for analysts to use artificial intelligence (AI) to identify objects in large data sets, the company announced on 13 February. The US military and intelligence community are inundated with massive amounts of data generated by remote sensing systems. Automated searches using algorithms that can identify pre-loaded images of objects makes pinpointing them easier. However, in order to train these algorithms, real images are often unavailable, because they are either rare or do not exist. The L3Harris tool creates sample images used to train search algorithms to identify hard-to-find objects in the data, which will help make it easier for the community to adopt AI. "L3Harris is a premier provider of modelling and simulation capabilities that provide risk reduction for our customers who rely on advanced geospatial systems and data," commented Ed Zoiss, President, Space and Airborne Systems, L3Harris.

Fei-Fei Li is a world-renowned expert in the field of artificial intelligence, having risen to become head of Stanford University's AI Lab and the chief scientist for AI at Google Cloud. But when Google LLC began an internal debate last year over how to publicly discuss its AI contract with the U.S. Department of Defense, Li's decision to write a confidential memo on the issue last September might be the second-worst moment in her corporate career. The worst was when it all became public. "Avoid at ALL COSTS any mention or implication of AI," Li wrote to her colleagues. "This is red meat to the media to find all ways to damage Google."

Fei-Fei Li is a world-renowned expert in the field of artificial intelligence, having risen to become head of Stanford University's AI Lab and the chief scientist for AI at Google Cloud. But when Google LLC began an internal debate last year over how to publicly discuss its AI contract with the U.S. Department of Defense, Li's decision to write a confidential memo on the issue last September might be the second-worst moment in her corporate career. The worst was when it all became public. "Avoid at ALL COSTS any mention or implication of AI," Li wrote to her colleagues. "This is red meat to the media to find all ways to damage Google."