Cognitive Engine: What Powers the USAF Platform?
May 1, 2019
Last week I met with a university professor who does cutting edge data and text mining and also shepherds PhD candidates. In the course of our 90 minute conversation, I noticed some reference books which had SPSS on the cover. The procedures implemented at this particular university worked well.
After the meeting, I was thinking about the newer approaches which are becoming publicly available. The USAF has started talking about its “cognitive engine.” I thought I heard at a conference that some technology developed developed by Nutonian, now part of a data and text mining roll up, had influenced the project.
The Nutonian system is predictive with a twist. The person using the system can rely on the smart software to perform the numerous intermediary steps required when using more traditional systems.
The article “The US Air Force Will Showcase Its Many Technological Advances in the USAF Lab Day.” The original is in Chinese but Freetranslate.com can help out if don’t read Chinese or have a close by contact who does.
The USAF wants to deploy a cognitive platform into which vendors can “plug in” their systems. The Chinese write up reported:
AFRL’s Autonomy Capability Team 3 (ACT3) is developing artificial intelligence on a large scale through the development and application of the Air Force Cognitive Engine (ACE), an artificial intelligence software platform. Put into application. The software platform architecture reduces the barriers to entry for artificial intelligence applications and provides end-user applications with the ability to cover a range of artificial intelligence problem types. In the application, the software platform connects educated end users, developers, and algorithms implemented in software, task data, and computing hardware to the process of creating an artificial intelligence solution.
The article also provides some interesting details which were not included in some of the English language reports about this session; for example:
- Smart rockets
- An agile pod
- Pathogen identification.
A couple of observations:
First, obviously the Chinese writer had access to information about the Lab Day demonstrations.
Second, the cognitive platform does not mention foundation vendors, which I understand.
Third, it would be delightful to visit a university and see documentation and information about the next-generation predictive analytics systems available.
Stephen E Arnold, May 1, 2019
Here’s what the Chinese writer reported about the
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