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Physics of Artificial Intelligence Department of War organization. PAI: Physics of Artificial Intelligence PAI: Physics of Artificial Intelligence The Physics of Artificial Intelligence (PAI) program is part of a broad DAPRA initiative to develop and apply “Third Wave” AI technologies to sparse data and adversarial spoofing, and that incorporate domain-relevant knowledge through generative contextual and explanatory models.
It is anticipated that AI will play an ever larger role in future Department of War (DoW) activities, ranging from scientific discovery, to real-time sensor processing, to control and coordination of composable systems. However, despite rapid progress of AI in the commercial sector – particularly in the subfield of machine learning – AI’s successful integration into numerous DoW applications has proven challenging.
Key challenges include the development of causal, predictive models and dealing with incomplete, sparse, and noisy data. To facilitate better incorporation of AI into DoW systems, the PAI program is exploring novel AI architectures, algorithms, and approaches that “bake in” physics, mathematics, and prior knowledge relevant to DoW application domains.
PAI aims to show that embedding physics and prior knowledge into AI will help to overcome the challenges of sparse data and will facilitate the development of generative models that are causal and explanative. This program is now complete. This content is available for reference purposes.
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AI-Driven Physics Modeling Initiative is funded by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
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