Pentagon Wants Silicon Valley’s Help on A.I

"The Pentagon needs help on A.I. from Silicon Valley because that’s where the talent is. The tech industry’s biggest companies have been hoarding A.I. expertise, sometimes offering multimillion-dollar pay packages that the government could never hope to match."

The Pentagon is going to have to come up with market compensation if they want top talent. The US spends half a trillion dollars per year on the military, they can certainly afford to pay software devs what they're worth if it is a priority.

This reminds me of an anime called Jormungand. Try to think the arm dealer Koko Hekmatyar as Pentagon and Dr.Miami as the SV companies. The end product they came up with seems like a wild fantasy for now but direction-wise it kind of makes sense.

Seems like Google has gone a ways from "don't be evil" to applying AI to tracking and targeting drones.