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By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on May 07, 2021 at 1:47 PM Key functions of the Army’s “common platform” for AI development WASHINGTON: As the Army develops AIs for different missions, from artillery targeting to helicopter maintenance, it doesn’t want each project to reinvent the wheel. So the Army’s Artificial Intelligence Task Force is working with Carnegie Mellon University and contractor VISIMO to create a shared toolkit of reusable algorithms, test data, and development tools. It’s meant to be a “common platform” or virtual “workbench” on which Army units can build a...
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on May 03, 2021 at 12:02 PM An experimental Army robot, nicknamed Origin, during the Project Convergence 20 exercise at Yuma Proving Ground, Ariz. WASHINGTON: The Army’s Artificial Intelligence Task Force is teaching AIs to share data and decide which intel is good enough to show a human, AITF experts told me. The tech will be tested in the service’s annual Project Convergence wargames this fall. Douglas Matty The objective isn’t to usurp a human’s role in decision-making, AITF director Doug Matty emphasized in an interview. To the contrary, it’s to e...