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Joint Professional Military Education (JPME)

The Australian Joint Professional Military Education Continuum is Australia’s system to develop mastery in the Profession of Arms and aims to cultivate an intellectual edge in warfighting. The Joint Professional Military Education Continuum comprises:

Links to Follow

Twitter feeds and podcasts to follow.

Journals

Recommended publications.

Is AI Really a Threat to Humanity?

This article comments on the impact of Cognitive Bias, found in AI systems, on our future. It provides the examples of the biased systems and asks the fundamental questions on our strategy going forward. The article is suitable for all the levels of JMPE continuum, and will be of interest to those particularly interested in Cognitive computing or Artificial Intelligence.

Catalogue of Technology, Knowledge and Concepts by Best-Selling Author Ray Kurzweil

Kurzweil Network is a small format digest — featuring hand-picked, specially curated stories and resources. This website is also home to the permanent collection of writings and commentary by Ray Kurzweil. It follows progress in the science and technology landscape, with topics including biology, nanotech, materials science, electronics, computation, artificial intelligence, robotics, web, pattern recognition, virtual reality, and prosthetics + body augmentation.

A Beginner's Guide to Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Cognitive Computing

This article explores some of the important aspects of AI and its subfields, including a brief history of its development. It defines key AI terminology and language and set a useful start-state for further targeted study.

Future of Logistics Systems in Defence

Logistics! Its not something we usually think about. Not many people understand the concept, or its impact on the progress of society. It is the lifeblood of economy – of any home, organisation, city or country.

Australian Links

Useful JPME Links - Australia.

Overseas Links

Useful JPME Links - Overseas.

What If Your Data Was Valued Like Currency? At This Café, It Is.

Shiru café offers students a free coffee in exchange for personal data. The data is related to their future employment desires, their habits during work and their use of social media. The café is open in informing students that this information will be passed to employment agencies and potential employers.

AI-Based Virtual Tutors – The Future of Education?

“This blog post is about the UC Berkeley Virtual Tutor project and the speech recognition technologies that were tested as part of that effort. We share best practices for machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques in selecting models and engineering training data for speech and image recognition.

Artificial intelligence system uses transparent, human-like reasoning to solve problems

This article describes a method by which a computer can recognise objects using Transparency by Design Network (TbD-Net) developed at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Researchers have used human-like reasoning to develop an algorithm which they claim can outperform other visual recognition software and algorithms because humans can view its reasoning process to determine where and how it is making mistakes.