El área de investigación e ingeniería del Pentágono está desarrollando una serie de estándares técnicos y mejores prácticas para el desarrollo de aplicaciones de inteligencia artificial. El desafío propuesto es optimizar los desarrollo para que lleguen a los combatientes y que éstos experimenten y puedan guiar el desarrollo y las mejoras.
The Pentagon’s research and engineering office is developing a series of technical standards and best practices for the department’s artificial intelligence efforts, according to Mark Lewis, director of research and engineering for modernization.
While running through the top technical priorities under his purview during a Tuesday event hosted by the trade association AFCEA, Lewis highlighted the challenges of trying to corral the artificial intelligence programs spread throughout the Department of Defense.
“[T]here is so much going on in the department right now in artificial intelligence, it’s kind of difficult to get a handle on it,” Lewis said.
As an example, he explained that weeks ago he had tasked Jill Crisman, a former top official with the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center who is now working as the technical director on AI inside the R&E team, to look at the Pentagon-wide efforts on AI and provide “an evaluation” of where everything stood.
“She came back and said: ‘You know, there are so many hundreds of programs that we really couldn’t do a fair evaluation of each individual activity,’ ” Lewis said. So instead, the team had to pivot, and Crisman is now working to establish a “series of standards” for best practices in AI engineering that can be applied to every Pentagon project involving AI.
“One of the things we want to do is break down stovepipes and activities across the department, artificial intelligence, be able to share databases, able to share applications to best figure out what are the artificial intelligence applications that will have the biggest impact on the war fighter,” Lewis added. “In some cases that means getting [the technologies] in the hands of the war fighter and having them play with them, experiment with them, and figure out what makes their job more effective, what makes your job easier. And frankly, to enable them to discard the things that don’t buy their way into the war fight.”
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