NYT: Project Maven AI having mixed results on Ukraine's battlefields
A massive and experimental artificial intelligence (AI) project developed by the U.S. military has had mixed results on the battlefields of Ukraine, as those behind it struggle to get "21st-century data into 19th-century trenches," the New York Times (NYT) reported on April 23. Project Maven began in 2017 and is the Pentagon's main effort at adopting the still fledgling field of AI for war, paving the way for algorithms to make decisions instead of soldiers and commanders. Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine presented the first opportunity to test how the system would work in a conventiona...