The Defense Department wants to explore Large Language Models for everything from paperwork to war plans – without being misled by hallucinations or having sensitive information sucked up by commercial LLMs hungry for training data.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.How to ensure readiness of next-generation defense technology: Solving the issue of massive heat.
High-performance systems generate tremendous amounts of heat that can compromise missions and make high-tech systems less effective in tactical environments. But there is a solution to this modern-age challenge.
“Any commercial LLM that is out there, that is learning from the internet, is poisoned today,” Jennifer Swanson said, “but our main concern [is] those algorithms that are going to be informing battlefield decisions.”
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
“For certain use cases, it’s proving to have a lot of value,” said Col. Matt “Nomad” Strohmeyer. “It’s not this panacea, but it’s also not this Pandora’s box of evil. It’s somewhere in between.”
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
With AI hype outrunning reality, DoD AI chief Craig Martell told lawmakers his office is “building what we’re calling a maturity model” to assess what generative AI really can and cannot do.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
A Breaking Defense webinar with experts from CDAO, APL, and CNAS gets into the question of defining artificial intelligence vs machine learning.
By Barry Rosenberg
With official outlets like RT and Sputnik kicked out of many Western countries, Moscow now emphasizes social media — exploiting TikTok, X, and the explosion in generative AI, according to a new report.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Join us for our inaugural live webinar where we’ll discuss how DoD organizations can best utilize and adapt to the capabilities of Generative AI to address threats from Great Powers in areas like cybersecurity and missile proliferation while transforming enterprise functions, collaboration.
By Breaking Defense
AI can make logistics data as valuable as intelligence or operational data for mission success
Valuable intelligence insights can be gleaned from logistics or flight-test data when artificial intelligence or machine learning is applied.
Join Breaking Defense for our live webinar where we’ll discuss how DoD organizations can best utilize and adapt to the capabilities of Generative AI to address threats from Great Powers in areas like cybersecurity and missile proliferation while transforming enterprise functions, collaboration.
By Breaking Defense
“We’ve hit our milestones and you’ll start seeing as we look to the next few months a lot more activity from the Maven office in terms of contracting,” Rachel Martin said.
By Jaspreet Gill
Training artificial intelligence on military-specific doctrine and intelligence to come up with operational plans is an “active area of experimentation right now,” according to a Special Competitive Studies Project analyst.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Led by the Pentagon’s Chief Digital and AI Office, the task force “will assess, synchronize, and employ generative AI capabilities across the DoD, ensuring the Department remains at the forefront of cutting-edge technologies while safeguarding national security,” according to a DoD announcement.
By Jaspreet Gill
At the moment, “generative” AI systems have “limited utility” for the US military, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said, but could help with some tasks if applied “in an ethical way.”
By Theresa Hitchens
“Here’s my biggest fear about ChatGPT,” Craig Martell said. “It has been trained to express itself in a fluent manner. It speaks fluently and authoritatively. So you believe it even when it’s wrong… And that means it is a perfect tool for disinformation…”
By Jaspreet Gill
Not all generative AI is created equal, argues combat veteran and former Pentagon official Tony DeMartino. By choosing the right kind, the military can advance both swiftly and safely.
By Tony DeMartino