Technology Magazine December 2020 | Page 93

Michael Kanaan | USAF-MIT AI Accelerator
Michael Kanaan | USAF-MIT AI Accelerator
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The work has been enabled by the participation of a number of key partners , whose professional experts and contractors have worked alongside MIT and the USAF . “ A lot of work that is necessary to bring modern technologies like cloud to bear , without which you would not have artificial intelligence . We want to make sure that it ’ s as easy as possible for our workforce to grasp .” Kanaan emphasizes that partners run the gamut of sizes , from the smallest to the largest . “ This is a team sport . It ’ s a whole-of-nation effort , with small business innovation and research crucial to the success of the United States Air and Space Force . Meanwhile , our traditional partners understand us better than anyone else . They know how to integrate technologies with the legacy architectures that we must rely upon . We can ’ t buy a new thing every single day , and many of those things we can ’ t put in the cockpit of a jet , of course . And then lastly , nontraditional partners help to reinvigorate the conversations that we need to have on AI today .”
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