The President has announced that the Defense Department will pursue a space-based missile defense system reminiscent of the one proposed by Reagan in 1983. As with Reagan’s ultimately abortive effort, the technology doesn’t actually exist yet and may not for years to come.
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The U.S. Defense Department is readying for the battle against deepfakes
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The U.S. Defense Department is already preparing itself for the fight against deepfakes, fake audio and video created by artificial intelligence that burst into the mainstream last year thanks to sites like Reddit.
According to MIT Technology Review, the development of tech to catch deepfakes is currently underway. Through the Media Forensics program run by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), researchers have already built some of the tools to expose these fake AI creations. The Media Forensics program was actually originally set up to automate existing forensic tools, however its mission changed due to the concern over the rise of deepfakes. The project’s deepfake mission was announced earlier this year. Read more…
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The US army will give startups who invent new weapons a cash prize
Move over, YCombinator. The hottest and not-troubling-at-all new startup accelerator is the army!
The US army is running a competition that will give startups that create winning new weapons technology a cash prize of up to $200,000. First spotted by…