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WASHINGTON: A Pentagon AI programme called Project Maven is at the centre of the US strikes against Iran and potentially one of the most consequential transformations of modern warfare.
What is it?
Project Maven is the Pentagon’s flagship artificial intelligence programme, launched in 2017 as a narrow experiment to help military analysts make sense of the torrent of drone footage pouring in from conflict zones.
Operators were drowning in imagery, searching frame by frame for objects of interest that might appear for only a moment before vanishing. Maven was built to find the needle in the haystack.
