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Crash update, DeepSeek warning

| February 15, 2025 | 26 Comments
Crash update, DeepSeek warning

NTSB has released updated information on the January 30 crash between an Army Blackhawk and the American Airlines flight near Reagan airport in DC. One helicopter pilot thought they were at 300 feet and the other thought they were at 200 feet. The NTSB is not prepared to say exactly how high the helicopter was […]

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The US military leveraged Artificial Intelligence to pick targets in Iraq and in Syria this year

| March 1, 2024 | 14 Comments
The US military leveraged Artificial Intelligence to pick targets in Iraq and in Syria this year

This specific program has been in place since 2017 via Project Maven. Companies developed a program that leveraged Artificial Intelligence to identify targets based on inputs from information gathering sources. This program was used in airstrikes that targeted over 85 locations across Syria and Iraq. The surprise attack conducted by Hamas against Israel, on October […]

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Google Gemini’s AI image generator causes Google’s parent company to lose over 70 billion

| February 28, 2024 | 40 Comments
Google Gemini’s AI image generator causes Google’s parent company to lose over 70 billion

The growing interest in utilizing AI image generators has led many companies to offer their own versions of the program. Google launched Gemini for this task. How Gemini responded to prompts has led to a lot of attention. However, this attention was not the kind that an organization desires. It’s a good idea to appeal […]

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Remembering Chief Warrant Officers Bryan Andrew Zemek and Derek Joshua Abbott: Fallen Heroes in Mississippi – AI Guest Post

| February 27, 2024 | 6 Comments
Remembering Chief Warrant Officers Bryan Andrew Zemek and Derek Joshua Abbott: Fallen Heroes in Mississippi – AI Guest Post

How good is Microsoft Bing’s ChatGPT when generating articles? I pulled up the “copilot” for Microsoft Edge and plugged in some prompts. Out came the below article on the two Soldiers who died in a helicopter crash in Mississippi… Sans APA formatted references. How did AI do with “writing” the below article? Right on target? […]

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According to the IMF, Artificial Intelligence will impact 40% of jobs around the world

| January 20, 2024 | 20 Comments
According to the IMF, Artificial Intelligence will impact 40% of jobs around the world

This trend does not appear to be “improving” for those who do not intend to rely on Artificial Intelligence (AI). One concept that this assessment forwarded suggested the worsening of overall equity. Kristalina Georgieva, IMF chief, calls for addressing this issue to mitigate the possibility that increased AI use may contribute to social tensions. From […]

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New robots to aid troops, Skynet smiles

| December 15, 2023 | 11 Comments
New robots to aid troops, Skynet smiles

  Ok, nothing to do with Skynet, the supposedly mythical robot AI fighting humans in Ah-nuld’s “Terminator” series. (Yes, other people were in the movies and headlined yet others… but face it,  he is the face of the franchise.) “We’re prototyping platoons,” Rainey (Gen. James Rainey, head of Army Futures Command – ed.) said. “This […]

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Crappy Tuesday posts

| November 14, 2023 | 41 Comments
Crappy Tuesday posts

Remember a while back we discussed that the Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID) has a practice they call “titling’. The suit addresses an obscure military process known as “titling,” in which the Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID) creates a permanent record showing a soldier was the subject of an investigation regardless of whether they are […]

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Artificial Intelligence took 10 minutes to complete a task that would have taken a person days to accomplish

| July 10, 2023 | 24 Comments
Artificial Intelligence took 10 minutes to complete a task that would have taken a person days to accomplish

Colonel Matthew Strohmeyer described the Large Language Model as “zipping” through a job in 10 minutes. This same job, according to Strohmeyer, would have taken hours or days for a person to complete. He declared this activity a success. The article emphasized that humans will still be involved with decision making when AI is imbedded […]

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