New NSF-Australia awards will tackle responsible and ethical artificial intelligence (2/19/2023) International, News, R&D, Trustworthy AI - The U.S. National Science Foundation, in partnership with Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, is announcing grants totaling $1.8 million on the U.S. side and $2.3 million on the Australian side to accelerate groundbreaking research in responsible and ethical artificial intelligence… ...
ACE Program’s AI Agents Transition from Simulation to Live Flight (2/13/2023) Applications, News - In less than three years, artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms developed under DARPA’s Air Combat Evolution (ACE) program have progressed from controlling simulated F-16s flying aerial dogfights on computer screens to controlling an actual F-16 in flight. In early December 2022,… ...
DoD artificial intelligence agents successfully pilot fighter jet (2/13/2023) Applications, News - A joint Department of Defense team executed 12 flight tests in which artificial intelligence, or AI, agents piloted the X-62A Variable Stability In-Flight Simulator Test Aircraft, or VISTA, to perform advanced fighter maneuvers at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., Dec.… ...
U.S. Strategic Command JEMSO Leaders Host Technical Interchange Meeting (2/10/2023) Event, News - Members of U.S. Strategic Command's Advanced Warfare Capabilities Division (J81) for Electromagnetic Spectrum (EMS) Modeling and Simulation (M&S) hosted a Technical Interchange Meeting on Jan, 10-11, bringing together more than 40 M&S specialists from government, academia, and business to chart… ...
NASA Turns to AI to Design Mission Hardware (2/9/2023) Applications, News, R&D - Spacecraft and mission hardware designed by an artificial intelligence may resemble bones left by some alien species, but they weigh less, tolerate higher structural loads, and require a fraction of the time parts designed by humans take to develop. “They… ...
GSA launches AI Challenge to drive better healthcare outcomes (2/9/2023) Challenge Competition, News - Yesterday, the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) launched the Applied AI Healthcare Challenge, a prize competition seeking diverse and practical solutions to help federal agencies provide the highest level of medical care. This challenge focuses on improving healthcare outcomes in… ...
Machine-learning models, guided by physics, will improve subsurface imaging (2/7/2023) Applications, News, R&D - A team of scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory is applying machine-learning algorithms to subsurface imaging that will impact a variety of applications, including energy exploration, carbon capture and sequestration, and estimating pathways of subsurface contaminant transport, according to new… ...
EEOC Hearing Explores Potential Benefits and Harms of Artificial Intelligence and other Automated Systems in Employment Decisions (1/31/2023) News, Trustworthy AI - Today, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) held a public hearing to examine the use of automated systems, including artificial intelligence (AI), in employment decisions. Increasingly, employers are using automated systems to make employment decisions, including the recruitment, hiring,… ...
NIST Risk Management Framework Aims to Improve Trustworthiness of Artificial Intelligence (1/26/2023) Governance, News, Standards, Trustworthy AI - The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released its Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework (AI RMF 1.0), a guidance document for voluntary use by organizations designing, developing, deploying or using AI systems to help… ...
Berkeley Lab Scientists Create Machine Learning Pipeline for Interpreting Large Tomography Datasets (1/25/2023) Applications, News, R&D - Advances in biological imaging have given scientists unprecedented datasets with extremely high resolutions, yet data interpretation tools are working overtime to keep up. This is particularly evident in the case of cryo-electron tomograms (cryo-ET), where the samples exhibit inherently low… ...