Work Completed Inserting AI into Army Drones, Says Scorpion CEO O’Brien

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Work Completed Inserting AI into Army Drones, Says Scorpion CEO O’Brien
3/8/2018
By Stew Magnuson and Yasmin Tadjdeh
 

The Army has eliminated the need to do lengthy pre-flight checks for its unmanned aerial vehicles by applying artificial intelligence algorithms on top of existing software programs.

“They call it an unmanned vehicle because there’s no pilot sitting up in it, but the pilot it is sitting up in a box in the desert doing the pre-flight checks and doing all the flight controls,” said Walter O’Brien, CEO of Scorpion Computer Services. “We’ve now automated that person where you just hit a button to do that kind of stuff.”

http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2018/3/8/work-completed-inserting-ai-into-army-drones-says-scorpion-ceo-obrien