Google is using its AI skills to help the Pentagon learn to analyze drone footage

Google is offering resources to the US Department of Defense for a “pilot project” to analyze drone footage using artificial intelligence. The collaboration was first reported in a story by Gizmodo, which noted that some Google employees had been “outraged” by the news after it was shared in an internal mailing list last week.
Details regarding what Google is actually providing to the DOD are not clear, but we know the work is part of Project Maven — a Pentagon res