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Central DoD Data Repository Critical for Pentagon AI Applications, AI Company Founder Says

Central DoD Data Repository Critical for Pentagon AI Applications, AI Company Founder Says
U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Krystoffer Miller, 325th Security Forces Squadron operations support superintendent, employs a Ghost Robotics built Quad-legged Unmanned Ground Vehicle at Tyndall AFB, Fla. on March 24, 2021. The prototypes were equipped with advanced multi-directional, thermal, and infrared video features that provide artificial intelligence-based threat detection., the Air Force said (U.S. Air Force Photo)

Pentagon data centralization is crucial to the future of military artificial intelligence (AI) applications, an AI entrepreneur told a congressional hearing on July 18th. "AI systems are only as good the data they are trained on," Alexandr Wang, founder and CEO of the San Francisco-based Scale AI, told the House Armed Services Committee's (HASC) cyber, information technologies and innovation (CITI) panel. "The DoD creates more than 22 terabytes of data daily, most of which is wasted...Scale [AI] fully supports the…

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