Google, US DoD Partnered on AI for Drones
Google’s pilot project with the Defense Department's Project Maven is aimed at developing artificial intelligence for analyzing drone footage
Ami Rojkes Dombe
| 07/03/2018
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Google has collaborated with the United States Department of Defense to help the agency develop artificial intelligence for analyzing drone footage, the GIZMODO website reported on Tuesday.
According to the report, Google’s pilot project with the DoD's Project Maven, an effort to identify objects in drone footage, has not been previously reported, but it was discussed widely within the company last week when information about the project was shared on an internal mailing list.
Project Maven, a Pentagon project also known as the Algorithmic Warfare Cross-Functional Team (AWCFT), was established in April 2017. The report adds that Maven’s stated mission is to "accelerate DoD’s integration of big data and machine learning." In total, the Defense Department spent $7.4 billion on artificial intelligence-related areas in 2017, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Google’s pilot project with the Defense Department's Project Maven is aimed at developing artificial intelligence for analyzing drone footage
This work, Aircraft of Kandahar: MQ-9 [Image 1 of 5], by Capt. Keenan Kunst, identified by DVIDS, must comply with the restrictions shown on https://www.dvidshub.net/about/copyright.
Google has collaborated with the United States Department of Defense to help the agency develop artificial intelligence for analyzing drone footage, the GIZMODO website reported on Tuesday.
According to the report, Google’s pilot project with the DoD's Project Maven, an effort to identify objects in drone footage, has not been previously reported, but it was discussed widely within the company last week when information about the project was shared on an internal mailing list.
Project Maven, a Pentagon project also known as the Algorithmic Warfare Cross-Functional Team (AWCFT), was established in April 2017. The report adds that Maven’s stated mission is to "accelerate DoD’s integration of big data and machine learning." In total, the Defense Department spent $7.4 billion on artificial intelligence-related areas in 2017, the Wall Street Journal reported.
