{"id":71881,"date":"2017-08-12T03:02:23","date_gmt":"2017-08-12T10:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/defense-secretary-james-mattis-envies-silicon-valleys-ai-ascent"},"modified":"2017-08-12T03:02:23","modified_gmt":"2017-08-12T10:02:23","slug":"defense-secretary-james-mattis-envies-silicon-valleys-ai-ascent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/defense-secretary-james-mattis-envies-silicon-valleys-ai-ascent","title":{"rendered":"Defense Secretary James Mattis Envies Silicon Valley\u2019s AI Ascent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/defense-secretary-james-mattis-envies-silicon-valleys-ai-ascent.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mattis, speaking in Mountain View, a stone\u2019s throw from Google\u2019s campus, hopes the tech industry will help the Pentagon catch up. He was visiting the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental, an organization within the DoD started by his predecessor Ashton Carter in 2015 to make it easier for smaller tech companies to partner with the Department of Defense and the military. DIUx has so far sunk $100 million into 45 contracts, including with companies developing small autonomous drones that could explore buildings during military raids, and a tooth-mounted headset and microphone.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The academic and commercial spheres are seeing rapid advances in AI technology. And the Pentagon wants in.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/james-mattis-artificial-intelligence-diux\/\">https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/james-mattis-artificial-intelligence-diux\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mattis, speaking in Mountain View, a stone\u2019s throw from Google\u2019s campus, hopes the tech industry will help the Pentagon catch up. He was visiting the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental, an organization within the DoD started by his predecessor Ashton Carter in 2015 to make it easier for smaller tech companies to partner with the Department [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71881","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}