DefenceTalkCountries including the United States and China called Thursday for urgent action to regulate the development and growing use of artificial intelligence in warfare, warning that the technology “could have unintended consequences”. A two-day meet in The Hague involving more than 60 countries took the first steps towards establishing international rules on use of AI […]https://www.defencetalk.com/countries-urge-action-for-rules-on-ai-use-in-war-79875/

DefenceTalkA British AI firm said it was rethinking its “safeguards” after its audio tool was used to clone celebrity voices and have them say racist and homophobic slurs. Eleven Labs tweeted on Monday that it had been a “crazy weekend” and admitted to finding “an increasing number of voice cloning misuse cases” just days after […]https://www.defencetalk.com/ai-voice-tool-misused-as-deepfakes-flood-web-forum-79825/

DefenceTalkIran’s recent seizure of unmanned US Navy boats shined a light on a pioneering Pentagon program to develop networks of air, surface and underwater drones for patrolling large regions, meshing their surveillance with artificial intelligence. The year-old program operates numerous unmanned surface vessels, or USVs, in the waters around the Arabian peninsula, gathering data and […]https://www.defencetalk.com/pentagon-combines-sea-drones-ai-to-police-gulf-region-79378/

DefenceTalkResearchers with DARPA’s Machine Common Sense (MCS) program demonstrated a series of improvements to robotic system performance over the course of multiple experiments. Just as infants must learn from experience, MCS seeks to construct computational models that mimic the core domains of child cognition for objects (intuitive physics), agents (intentional actors), and places (spatial navigation). […]https://www.defencetalk.com/ai-improves-robotic-performance-in-darpas-machine-common-sense-program-79015/

DefenceTalkTwo emerging Australian space startups – AICRAFT and Antaris Space Space – have signed of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to test new Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) models in space, with the goal of developing and space-qualifying new computational capabilities for satellite-based applications. Under the MoU the two startups, who are both members […]https://www.defencetalk.com/australian-startups-join-forces-to-test-ai-computing-in-space-78265/

DefenceTalkMountains of data are generated when the U.S. military conducts missile testing, and not all of that data is even used, simply because there’s more information to be processed than there are people to process it, the director of the Missile Defense Agency said. “When you look at the amount of data we pull from […]

DefenceTalkow is the time for decision makers, commanders and policymakers within the Defense Department to get on board with fully implementing artificial intelligence, the director of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center said. Right now, said Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Michael Groen, AI is being used in many places across the department — but not at […]

DefenceTalkThe United States is dangerously behind in artificial intelligence critical to its future including national security, according to a commission that includes a former head of Google and the future chief of Amazon. A report released by the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence called for the country to invest $40 billion to win a […]

DefenceTalkDefenceTalkIt’s 4 October 1957, and the Soviet Union has just lofted humanity’s first satellite -Sputnik 1 -into the pristine orbital environment around Earth, marking the start of the Space Age. Throughout 1960s and 70s, launches quickly increase, as the USA, Soviet Union and other countries race for space, discovering and utilizing the immense value of […]https://www.defencetalk.com/artificial-intelligence-behind-21st-century-spaceflight-76720/

DefenceTalkDefenceTalkOne aspect of the return of great power competition is the race to develop artificial intelligence, Defense Secretary Dr. Mark T. Esper said at the virtual Joint Artificial Intelligence Center symposium. Artificial intelligence has the potential to change the battlefield, and the country that’s first to field it will have enormous advantages over competitors, he […]https://www.defencetalk.com/esper-says-artificial-intelligence-will-change-the-battlefield-76325/