The State Of Artificial Intelligence

In recent years, the U.S. military has increased its focus on artificial intelligence to enhance war-fighting capabilities, shore up mission critical programs and even support mental health work. Today, FedScoop brings you a closer look at just a few of these fascinating AI programs and what they bring to the federal government table.

To begin, the Defense Department describes AI as the scientific study and engineering of intelligent machines. Intelligent machines are systems able to perceive and respond in a success-maximizing manner to their environment. The field’s theoretical underpinning lies in the idea human intelligence can be described so precisely, it can be replicated by machines.

Leading the way in military AI research, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency launched the Probabilistic Programming for Advancing Machine Learning program in March. The program will facilitate rapid advancements in machine learning, a critical component of AI. Machine learning is defined by DARPA as the ability of computers to understand data, manage results and surmise insights from uncertain information.