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Data from drones in Ukraine is fueling a new Wild West marketplace
The front line is being turned into a place to train AI models, and right now it’s effectively a regulation-free zone. This story was written by Cory Alpert and narrated by Noa - newsoveraudio.com. Listen to more of the world's best journalism on the Noa app
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Welcome to MIT Technology Review Narrated. My name is Matt Honin. I'm our Editor-in-Chief. Every week, we'll bring you a fascinating, new, in-depth story from the leading edge of science and technology, covering topics like AI, biotech, climate, energy, robotics, and more. Here's this week's story. I hope you enjoy it.
COREY ALPUT writes, data from drones in Ukraine is fueling a new Wild West marketplace. Battlefields in Ukraine are littered with the remnants of drones, which are now firmly established as a critical weapon of modern warfare. But behind all that wreckage, there's a new gold mine for the defence sector.
The data drones generate will far outlast the wars in which they are used to fight, becoming part of the AI architecture that shapes even civilian life. For every flight, unmanned systems collect thousands of points of data from images and video to controller inputs. Together, those records show how a machine and a person responded to constantly shifting
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