Clean Data First, Develop AI Later
The DoD will tackle the troves of stored data to allow vendors and services to develop their own models.
The Department of Defense’s (DoD’s) future in artificial intelligence (AI) will come through private companies creating models and applications, not through the department’s efforts.
“80% of the demand for AI is really satisfiable by high-quality data and a good dashboard so you can see where your stuff is. So that’s the next layer, and then finally, AI is on top of that,” said Craig Martell, DoD’s outgoing chief digital and artificial intelligence officer (CDAO). “One of the key things of high-quality data is that it’s accessible, discoverable and available to you to build an app on top of it very quickly, in a way that a combatant commander needs it,” Martell said.