A personal ‘Cortana’-like AI for every American soldier? It’s possible

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00:00Artificial intelligence is permeating just about every facet of modern life, but using

00:07it in the military is a little different. Military AI models have lots of national

00:12secrets that need protecting, something AI models aren't great about when anyone can ask them

00:18questions. And for troops operating far from the safety of a proper military installation,

00:25what's known as the tactical edge, using AI, or any piece of technology that needs to send a signal

00:32or receive a signal, could give away the troops location, leading to deadly consequences.

00:39So how do you put this paradigm shifting technology of AI into the hands of the

00:45warfighters who need it behind enemy lines, all without compromising them or the data?

00:52AIs are the next, it's the next frontier. I mean, these things are, can be more powerful than

00:59nuclear weapons. So we have to, I think, you know, all of us sort of just come together like,

01:05like it's the, like it's the Manhattan project again. And, you know, we have the big tech folks,

01:10we have the small startups like us, we all have different core competencies. I think we all need

01:14to work together to safeguard our nation. Tyler Saltzman is the president and co-founder of

01:20Edge Runner AI. It's a tech startup in the defense sector, working to create AI assistance

01:26that can be used on any device and without an active network connection, which is called

01:32air-gapped in the industry. Edge Runner partnered with Meta, the parent company of Facebook,

01:38and uses the Lama AI model as the base from which to build AI agents tailor-made for each job in the

01:45military. Imagine a better version of ChatGPT that never needs the internet that's military specific.

01:52And what that means is, it's specific to your MOS, your military occupation specialty. So me,

01:58for example, I was an army 90 alpha, an army logistician. I require much of an AI than a combat

02:04medic or a fighter pilot or a tank operator. So for example, when I was in Eastern Europe running

02:10logistics missions, running explosive ordinance to the forward line of troops and EOD unit,

02:16there was a point where we had a truck go down and now we had to repackage explosive ordinance

02:20from one truck to another truck. Well, the question is, will this exacerbate the explosion and take

02:26out my convoy or is it completely fine? Can these mix together? The different explosive ordinances.

02:32Now in the military, there's lots of tables and charts on what can be mixed together,

02:36but you don't always have that crammed in your head or available when you're in the fight on

02:41a convoy over, you know, in mission. So right away, an AI would be able to know, yeah, that's good.

02:47You're good to go or you're not. And for me, as the young lieutenant, you got to make the call.

02:52And because it's not connected to the internet or any other network or anything like that, there's no

02:56worry about enemy, you know, software trying to pull the information out of the cloud or anything like

03:05that, right? That's right. Now it's not perfect being air grabbed on the device,

03:09but it's significantly better than requiring internet connectivity or satellite, which you

03:14might as well just tell the enemy where you're at. So for this to be completely local, it's a big

03:19advantage. It's also more cost effective because you're not paying by the token, which, you know,

03:24we're seeing folks gouge customers by that. So it's unlimited inferences on your device.

03:30In addition to its partnership with Meta, Age Runner AI is also working on projects with the

03:36U.S. Army, Air Force, Space Force and Special Operations Command.

03:40We have a lot of traction with SOCOM. We're actually deployed overseas with them

03:45and it works, you know, things are going well. We're saving them time. We're reducing cognitive

03:50load. Imagine you're running a mission and you're getting shot at or things are hitting the fan.

03:55You know, sometimes it's hard to think in those high six environments and this can help you.

03:58So like reducing cognitive load on the warfighters so they can, you know, move forward.

04:04Tyler said multiple times during our conversation that Edge Runner AI or any artificial agent is not

04:11a magic bullet that will fix every problem, but it is a powerful tool that's going to be right

04:18more often than a human. For more reporting like this, download the Straight Arrow News app today.

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