DARPA's First and Second Waves of AI Advancements

DARPA's First and Second Waves of AI Advancements

While Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a trendy buzzword in recent years thanks to the explosion of large language models such as ChatGPT, the military-industrial space has been researching and deploying AI solutions for decades. In fact, Alan Turing, the mathematician who achieved a groundbreaking milestone in military history when he cracked the German’s enigma machine encryption during WWII, is considered the father of AI thanks to his Turing Test, which determines if a machine can think. Today, applications of AI for defense and security include enhanced decision-making, information gathering, threat detection, and target acquisition, to name a few examples.

The following piece will outline six times the U.S. military, specifically the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), has designed and implemented an AI solution.