THE PENTAGON’S NEW(?) AI PREDICTION CAPABILITY By for Giza Death Star
You may not have heard of it, but the U.S. Pentagram…er… Pentagon recently held its third GIDE, or “Global Information Dominance Experiment” according to the following article that many (and I mean, many) regular readers here spotted. After reading it, I can see why so many passed it along and shared it (and thank you to all of you who did so):
The Pentagon Is Experimenting With Using Artificial Intelligence To “See Days In Advance”
Here’s what the Pentagram is up to:
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U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM) recently conducted a series of tests known as the Global Information Dominance Experiments, or GIDE, which combined global sensor networks, artificial intelligence (AI) systems, and cloud computing resources in an attempt to “achieve information dominance” and “decision-making superiority.” According to NORTHCOM leadership, the AI and machine learning tools tested in the experiments could someday offer the Pentagon a robust “ability to see days in advance,” meaning it could predict the future with some reliability based on evaluating patterns, anomalies, and trends in massive data sets. While the concept sounds like something out of Minority Report, the commander of NORTHCOM says this capability is already enabled by tools readily available to the Pentagon.
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VanHerck told reporters that this AI-enabled decision making could actually allow for a type of proactive forecasting that sounds truly like the stuff of science fiction:
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“[W]hat we’ve seen is the ability to get way further what I call left, left of being reactive to actually being proactive. And I’m talking not minutes and hours, I’m talking days.”
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To do this, the experiment used artificial intelligence tools to perform real-time analysis of data gathered by a network of sensors across the globe including “commercially available information” from unnamed partners. That information, VanHerck says, could be shared via cloud-based systems to allies and other partners in real-time, should NORTHCOM decide to. The tests also included support from the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center and Project Maven, a DOD project that leverages AI to sift through massive amounts of persistent surveillance imagery and rapidly identify useful information.
As the reader might expect, I have a number of high octane speculations to advance. Firstly, whenever any military – particularly the American – comes out and says “Oh we’re developing this new capability,” my default position is “they’re lying; they’ve had it for some time.” So what’s the purpose of the article?
