{"id":125736,"date":"2021-08-02T09:22:19","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T16:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/pentagon-believes-its-precognitive-ai-can-predict-events-days-in-advance"},"modified":"2021-08-02T09:22:19","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T16:22:19","slug":"pentagon-believes-its-precognitive-ai-can-predict-events-days-in-advance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/pentagon-believes-its-precognitive-ai-can-predict-events-days-in-advance","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon believes its precognitive AI can predict events \u2018days in advance\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pentagon-believes-its-precognitive-ai-can-predict-events-days-in-advance2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2018-06-26-us-army-ai-vehicle-repairs-bradley.html\" class=\"\">US military\u2019s AI experiments<\/a> are growing particularly ambitious. <em>The Drive<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedrive.com\/the-war-zone\/41771\/the-pentagon-is-experimenting-with-using-artificial-intelligence-to-see-days-in-advance\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">reports<\/a> that US Northern Command recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/Newsroom\/Transcripts\/Transcript\/Article\/2711594\/northcom-commander-gen-glen-d-vanherck-conducts-press-briefing-on-north-america\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">completed<\/a> a string of tests for Global Information Dominance Experiments (GIDE), a combination of AI, cloud computing and sensors that could give the Pentagon the ability to predict events \u201cdays in advance,\u201d according to Command leader General Glen VanHerck. It\u2019s not as mystical as it sounds, but it could lead to a major change in military and government operations.<\/p>\n<p>The machine learning-based system observes changes in raw, real-time data that hint at possible trouble. If <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/space-xs-next-starlink-launch-will-help-improve-satellite-imagery-of-the-earth-130033228.html\" class=\"\">satellite imagery<\/a> shows signs that a rival nation\u2019s submarine is preparing to leave port, for instance, the AI could flag that mobilization knowing the vessel will likely leave soon. Military analysts can take hours or even days to comb through this information \u2014 GIDE technology could send an alert within \u201cseconds,\u201d VanHerck said.<\/p>\n<p>The most recent dry run, GIDE 3, was the most expansive yet. It saw all 11 US commands and the broader Defense Department use a mix of military and civilian sensors to address scenarios where \u201ccontested logistics\u201d (such as communications in the Panama Canal) might pose a problem. The technology involved wasn\u2019t strictly new, the General said, but the military \u201cstitched everything together.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US military\u2019s AI experiments are growing particularly ambitious. The Drive reports that US Northern Command recently completed a string of tests for Global Information Dominance Experiments (GIDE), a combination of AI, cloud computing and sensors that could give the Pentagon the ability to predict events \u201cdays in advance,\u201d according to Command leader General Glen [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,9,6,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-military","category-robotics-ai","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}