Pentagon’s Big AI Program, Maven, Already Hunts Data in Middle East, Africa
Project Maven has made huge strides in its first year, but the key is remaining open to updates from whoever has the best idea for new algorithms, and new code, a military leader says,
By Paul McLeary on May 01, 2018 at 3:05 PM
Just a year after it’s birth, the Pentagon’s cornerstone artificial intelligence effort, Project Maven, has already been deployed to half a dozen locations in the Middle East and Africa, where it is helping military analysts sort through the mountains of data their sensors and drones soak up.
Military leaders have said for months that the program was being used to organize and analyze video and data pulled from drones in the Middle East. But its early success and the push from Washington to move out on AI as quickly as possible has led the Pentagon to expand to AFRICOM, one military official involved in the program said on Tuesday.
https://breakingdefense.com/2018/05/pentagons-big-ai-program-maven-already-hunts-data-in-middle-east-africa/
