The U.S. Defense Department hopes an elite group of AI scientists will develop more tools to help intelligence analysts find terrorists before they strike.
The military is testing software robots that can identify targets and present them to commanders much more quickly than a human could. The software, known as the Control of Agent-Based Systems or CoABS, uses artificially intelligent "agents" to sift through troves of images and intelligence data to find viable targets.
Researchers are developing software agents to help decision makers sort through changing and sometimes conflicting information.
AI is experiencing a resurgence due to advances in neural network technology and the growing need for data mining.