{"id":74697,"date":"2017-12-26T09:02:31","date_gmt":"2017-12-26T17:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/the-pentagons-new-artificial-intelligence-is-already-hunting-terrorists"},"modified":"2018-01-02T13:12:35","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T21:12:35","slug":"the-pentagons-new-artificial-intelligence-is-already-hunting-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/the-pentagons-new-artificial-intelligence-is-already-hunting-terrorists","title":{"rendered":"The Pentagon\u2019s New Artificial Intelligence Is Already Hunting Terrorists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-pentagons-new-artificial-intelligence-is-already-hunting-terrorists.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After less than eight months of development, the algorithms are helping intel analysts exploit drone video over the battlefield.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Earlier this month at an undisclosed location <\/strong>in the Middle East, computers using special algorithms helped intelligence analysts identify objects in a video feed from a small ScanEagle drone over the battlefield.<\/p>\n<p>A few days into the trials, the computer identified objects \u2014 people, cars, types of building \u2014 correctly about 60 percent of the time. Just over a week on the job \u2014 and a handful of on-the-fly software updates later \u2014 the machine\u2019s accuracy improved to around 80 percent. Next month, when its creators send the technology back to war with more software and hardware updates, they believe it will become even more accurate.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/technology\/2017\/12\/pentagons-new-artificial-intelligence-already-hunting-terrorists\/144742\/?oref=DefenseOneFB&utm_content=buffer3ac35&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer\">http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/technology\/2017\/12\/pentagons-new-a...ign=buffer<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After less than eight months of development, the algorithms are helping intel analysts exploit drone video over the battlefield. Earlier this month at an undisclosed location in the Middle East, computers using special algorithms helped intelligence analysts identify objects in a video feed from a small ScanEagle drone over the battlefield. A few days into [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,41,9,6,2414],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-information-science","category-military","category-robotics-ai","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74697","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74882,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74697\/revisions\/74882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}