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/

DefenceTalkBlackSky Technology Inc. (NYSE: BKSY) received a $4.4 million award from the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) to support the second phase of the multi-year Space-based Machine Automated Recognition Technique (SMART) Program. “As part of our work, BlackSky created a high-performance MLOps (machine learning operations) framework that was ultimately selected to perform as the […]https://www.defencetalk.com/blacksky-to-provide-advanced-ai-for-space-based-dynamic-monitoring-79107/

DefenceTalkUkraine is employing face recognition technology to identify invading Russian troops killed on its soil, a complex and unprecedented avenue for software already seen as problematic, experts said Thursday. The embattled nation uses details resulting from the process to try to track down and notify the families of the dead, in an act Ukraine says […]https://www.defencetalk.com/complex-questions-as-face-recognition-tech-joins-ukraine-war-78510/

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/

DefenceTalkNorthrop Grumman Corporation has been awarded a contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Perceptually-enabled Task Guidance (PTG) program to develop a prototype artificial intelligence (AI) assistant. The prototype will be embedded in an augmented reality (AR) headset to help rotary pilots perform expected and unexpected tasks. Northrop Grumman, in partnership with the […]https://www.defencetalk.com/northrop-grumman-to-develop-prototype-artificial-intelligence-assistant-77807/

DefenceTalkSwarms of hundreds or thousands of small satellites are increasingly used for bringing data and internet services to Earth. To position, communicate and dispose such large amounts of satellites, Artificial Intelligence is getting increasingly important. To enable a large-scale use of Artificial Intelligence in orbit, RUAG Space, Europe’s leading supplier to the space industry, and […]https://www.defencetalk.com/enabling-artificial-intelligence-on-satellites-77774/

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 […]