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Army Activates New AI Task Force

By Matthew Beinart

Friday, February 1st, 2019

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Army Activates New AI Task Force

The Army's hub for its new AI Task Force will be headquartered at Carnegie Mellon University's National Robotics Engineering Center

The Army on Friday launched its new Artificial Intelligence Task Force, which will fall under the new Futures Command and look to develop AI applications for the full spectrum of Army capabilities. The new task force will be headquartered at Carnegie Mellon University’s National Robotics Engineering Center and bring together Futures Command, the Army Research Laboratory and the Pentagon’s new Joint Artificial Intelligence Center to better leverage the most recent AI technological updates from industry and academia. “The potential for…

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