The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has said that despite recent concerns about the dangers of artificial intelligence (AI), there is no need to pause its development. Speaking at the GEOINT 2023 Symposium, Mark Munsell, director of the Data and Digital Innovation Directorate at the NGA, said that the technology was not yet good enough and that continued maturing would improve capabilities. The NGA’s primary investment focus is on machine learning in the domain of computer vision, enabling it to detect objects of interest and derive information from them. The agency is using AI to help it cope with the amount of data it is collecting from remote Earth imaging sensors.
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