The Pentagon Wants Your Help Analyzing Satellite Images
The Pentagon Wants Your Help Analyzing Satellite Images
Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer
February 22, 20181m 5s
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Show Notes
On a trip to Silicon Valley last year, Defense Secretary James Mattis openly envied tech companies’ superior use of artificial intelligence technology. To help close the gap, one Pentagon unit is now offering $100,000 in prizes to develop algorithms that can interpret high-resolution satellite images. The contest is called the xView Detection Challenge, and starts next month.
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