Google is using its AI skills to help the Pentagon learn to analyze drone footage

The Verge -------- Google is offering resources to the US Department of Defense for a “pilot project” to analyze drone footage using artificial intelligence. The collaboration was first reported in a story by Gizmodo, which noted that some Google employees had been “outraged” by the news after it was shared in an internal mailing list last week. Details regarding what Google is actually providing to the DOD are not clear, but we know the work is part of Project Maven — a Pentagon research initiative to develop computer vision that can better understand video footage. Such technology could have a range of uses in the military, including helping to surveil and track targets using drones and providing the brains for static CCTV cameras in military camps and bases. Technology of this sort can be used to recognize basic objects, like cars and people, but has trouble analyzing complex scenes. To learn more click on the picture below to read the article.