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Why military integration of AI favors offense but not defense in US warfare
13+ hour, 30+ min ago (987+ words) There is a particular confidence that accompanies expensive systems. It is the confidence of glass towers, precision engineering, and the belief, never quite stated, that complexity itself is a form of protection. The higher the cost, the more reassuring the…...
Project Maven: The Pentagon's AI system reshaping modern warfare
10+ hour, 40+ min ago (687+ words) Project Maven is the U.S. Department of Defense's flagship artificial intelligence program, launched in 2017 to address the challenge of processing vast amounts of surveillance data from drones and sensors in global conflict zones. The system changes how military analysts process intelligence…...
Scientists place fruit fly brain in virtual body in new digital neuroscience step
4+ week, 5+ hour ago (306+ words) Neurotechnology company Eon Systems released this demonstration as a clear example of a brain model, based on a real biological connectome, controlling a physics-based body in a closed loop. More broadly, this work highlights a fast-growing area of neuroscience that…...