The U.S. military’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center will be crucial to scaling AI and machine learning across the department and into operations, as well as attracting talented engineers to work with the Defense Department, according to DOD officials. Brendan McCord, head of machine learning at the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental, previewed the center, called the JAIC, during a Defense Innovation Board meeting held yesterday at DIUx headquarters in Mountain View, CA. The center will communicate “critical needs and areas of...