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Despite how it is often described, artificial intelligence is not necessarily a new or emerging technology. In fact, AI has been around for nearly 80 years, according to Dr. Cara LaPointe, co-director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Assured Autonomy. But with the considerably increased speed of advancements made in the last few years, AI is […] More
The White House has received voluntary commitments from eight companies to help foster secure, safe and trustworthy development of artificial intelligence tools. Adobe, Cohere, IBM, Nvidia, Palantir, Salesforce, Scale AI and Stability have committed to adhering to three principles of responsible AI development in support of the current administration’s efforts to manage AI risks, the […] More
Building a trusted relationship with artificial intelligence technologies is non-negotiable for the Department of Defense as it gets serious about the hot button tool. Pentagon officials have to consider all of the intricacies of weapon systems in order to properly contend with how to integrate and build in AI features — as well as “the […] More
At the start of 2023, the artificial intelligence industry saw a major boom with the release of numerous large language models and generative AI tools. While this new array of technologies and AI innovations seemed to unlock a new world of possibilities, it also opened up new threat vectors and potential risks. The Central Intelligence […] More
Rob Carey, president of Cloudera Government Solutions, said federal agencies looking to effectively implement artificial intelligence tools should identify problems that are well-defined and supported by high-quality data. “This is taking what we do today with machine learning and current AI algorithms. And now we are into generative AI that helps you predict things better, […] More
It’s been made clear over the past couple of years that artificial intelligence is of primary concern to the Department of Defense. In Feb. 2022, it famously stood up the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office, which consolidated and united several disparate functions that dealt with AI and autonomy throughout the department. But in order […] More
Haywood Talcove, CEO of LexisNexis Risk Solutions‘ Government Group, said international criminal groups from countries including Russia, Nigeria and China are using generative artificial intelligence to commit fraud and other illicit activities, Fox News reported Tuesday. Talcove cited a recently uncovered fraud-for-hire commercial posted on the dark web by a multibillion-dollar criminal organization that has […] More
A General Atomics-led team has secured a three-year, $7.4 million grant from the Department of Energy to to build an integrated artificial intelligence and machine learning tool researchers can use to analyze fusion science data. Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Sapientai and the University of California will serve as team members on the fusion data platform development […] More
Michael Adams is the artificial intelligence and big data solutions vertical executive at Carahsoft. He joined in 2007, not long after the company’s founding, and has played a key role in its notable year-over-year growth. The sales director works with providers of advanced analytics and other emerging solutions to meet the unique needs of federal, […] More
San Francisco-based analytics software company TurbineOne will undertake a prototype machine learning development project under a multiyear contract from the Department of Defense’s innovation arm. TurbineOne said Monday the collaboration with the Defense Innovation Unit and DOD’s FutureG and 5G Office will pursue ML applications for geolocation and threat detection. This award aligns with the […] More
Kyle Tuberson, chief technology officer of ICF, said low-code and no-code software applications could streamline the artificial intelligence technology integrations in a business or customer workflow, Techopedia reported Thursday. “Since these platforms often utilize a drag-and-drop editor with little to no coding, developers can easily integrate pre-built and pre-trained AI models into their applications by […] More
IBM has participated in a Series D round launched by open-source artificial intelligence platform Hugging Face to raise $235 million in funding as the latter works to advance technology innovation and further expand its presence in the open science AI market. The move builds on IBM’s collaboration with Hugging Face on watsonx. IBM said Thursday […] More
