Pentagon should experiment with AIs like ChatGPT — but don’t trust them yet: DoD’s ex-AI chiefs

Pentagon should experiment with AIs like ChatGPT — but don’t trust them yet: DoD’s ex-AI chiefs
Pentagon should experiment with AIs like ChatGPT — but don’t trust them yet: DoD’s ex-AI chiefs

The potential of “generative AI” is too big to ignore, say retired generals Jack Shanahan and Mike Groen, who each led the Pentagon’s Joint AI Center — but for now, its tendency to “hallucinate” and make up information is “a showstopper.”

Deloitte Wins $106M JAIC Contract To Build AI Toolkit

Deloitte Wins $106M JAIC Contract To Build AI Toolkit
Deloitte Wins $106M JAIC Contract To Build AI Toolkit

The Joint Common Foundation will put a standard set of tools in the cloud, where any Defense Department AI project can use them.

Pentagon AI Gains ‘Overwhelming Support’ From Tech Firms – Even Google

Pentagon AI Gains ‘Overwhelming Support’ From Tech Firms – Even Google
Pentagon AI Gains ‘Overwhelming Support’ From Tech Firms – Even Google

Despite past battles over Project Maven and other military uses of AI, “Google and many others” are now working with the Pentagon’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, its new acting director says.

AF Should Consider New Combined ISR/Cyber/EW Command: Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan

AF Should Consider New Combined ISR/Cyber/EW Command: Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan
AF Should Consider New Combined ISR/Cyber/EW Command: Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan

“There are a lot of autonomous systems in DoD today. There are very few, and I would say really no significant, AI enabled autonomous systems,” says Shanahan, who is trying to change that.

Joint AI Center Turns To Air Force cloudONE As JEDI Stalls

Joint AI Center Turns To Air Force cloudONE As JEDI Stalls
Joint AI Center Turns To Air Force cloudONE As JEDI Stalls

The Joint Artificial Intelligence Center needs three things: new acquisition authorities, more staff, and the cloud. With JEDI delayed ‘potentially many more months,’ director Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan said, he’s turning to an Air Force alternative.

DoD Adopts AI Ethics Principles — But How Will They Be Enforced?

DoD Adopts AI Ethics Principles — But How Will They Be Enforced?
DoD Adopts AI Ethics Principles — But How Will They Be Enforced?

Writing regulations will take months. Convincing industry and academia to trust the military to handle AI ethically could take years.

Pentagon AI Efforts Disorganized: RAND

Pentagon AI Efforts Disorganized: RAND
Pentagon AI Efforts Disorganized: RAND

The RAND report, commissioned by the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, unsurprisingly recommends more power for the JAIC over future service budgets. Right now AI efforts are so diffuse no one’s even sure what’s in the 2020 appropriations bill just passed.

EXCLUSIVE Pentagon’s AI Problem Is ‘Dirty’ Data: Lt. Gen. Shanahan

EXCLUSIVE Pentagon’s AI Problem Is ‘Dirty’ Data: Lt. Gen. Shanahan
EXCLUSIVE Pentagon’s AI Problem Is ‘Dirty’ Data: Lt. Gen. Shanahan

The military has all the data it needs to train machine learning algorithms for war – somewhere. Now the Joint AI Center has to find it all and clean it up. The goal: AI Ready data.

Google To Pentagon: ‘We’re Eager To Do More’

Google To Pentagon: ‘We’re Eager To Do More’
Google To Pentagon: ‘We’re Eager To Do More’

Google wants to move beyond the ‘frustrating’ criticism of Project Maven and work closely with the Pentagon’s year-old Joint AI Center, senior VP Kent Walker said.

No AI For Nuclear Command & Control: JAIC’s Shanahan

No AI For Nuclear Command & Control: JAIC’s Shanahan
No AI For Nuclear Command & Control: JAIC’s Shanahan

The Joint Artificial Intelligence Center won’t automate nuclear response — but it is working towards AI on conventional weapons and leery of arms control.

AI, Cybersecurity, & The Data Trap: You Don’t Know Normal

AI, Cybersecurity, & The Data Trap: You Don’t Know Normal
AI, Cybersecurity, & The Data Trap: You Don’t Know Normal

“How do I even know what’s normal and what’s abnormal so I can detect anomalies? We simply don’t know,” says Dean Souleles, chief technology advisor for the Director of National Intelligence.

Joint AI Chief: Start With 50% Solutions ASAP

Joint AI Chief: Start With 50% Solutions ASAP
Joint AI Chief: Start With 50% Solutions ASAP

The military will use Silicon Valley’s approach to quickly field imperfect products, then rapidly improve them based on user feedback.

Download, Disconnect, Fire! Why Grunts Need JEDI Cloud

Download, Disconnect, Fire! Why Grunts Need JEDI Cloud
Download, Disconnect, Fire! Why Grunts Need JEDI Cloud

Future soldiers will need to download huge amounts of intelligence data — then disconnect and go dark, like a submarine diving underwater to hunt its prey.

Big Data For Big Wars: JEDI vs. China & Russia

Big Data For Big Wars: JEDI vs. China & Russia
Big Data For Big Wars: JEDI vs. China & Russia

Trump’s war with Bezos and Amazon has overshadowed the reason the military wants cloud computing: to share vital data in a fast-paced global conflict.