Ep. 004: Demystifying Artificial Intelligence

Warfighter Podcast

Tom & Colin provide an update on their preview of the Improbable Defence Skyral platform, at their HQ in London. Colin has returned from I/ITSEC in Orlando and was able to see the Improbable Defence demo and provides a summary of the main discussion themes from the show. We discuss how there is a greater demand for realism and scale across simulation and training, which is being supported across a number of UK, US and Nato projects in the coming years.

Our guest on this show is Chris Covert, who is an Executive Producer for Microsoft, working on Gaming, Exercising, Modeling, and Simulation projects across a wide range of customers. Chris brings a wealth of experience and subject matter knowledge from his career in developing simulation applications to solve some of our most challenging engineering problems.

We ask Chris to break down AI concepts and explain them to people of below average intelligence (like your hosts). In this engaging discussion, Chris breaks down some of the misconceptions and assumptions around AI, and provides a quick reference overview for the different technologies and techniques that come under the banner of AI. We cover aspects of AI such as Machine Learning, Decision Trees, Deep Learning, Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing. At the end Chris provides our listeners with some great tips on how to address projects that might be seeking to leverage AI technologies.

As ever, we are joined by Andy Fawkes who provides a digest of the recent modelling & simulation news, with some discussion around the more interesting topics. We’re looking for our audience to get involved and send us stories of interest from the Simulation & Training world that we might not be aware of.

Guest:

• Chris Covert: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-covert/

Episode Sponsor:

Improbable Defence: https://defence.improbable.io/

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Hosts:

• Tom Constable: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-constable/
• Colin Hillier: https://www.linkedin.com/in/colinhillier/

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