Ukraine says to share valuable wartime drone data with allies to train AI

A Valkyrie AI drone flies with an F-22. Now, they might get upgrades. (Picture: Tech. Sgt. James Cason, USAF)
Ukraine’s new defense minister, Mykhailo Fedorov, is sitting on a trove of metrics from four years of drone warfare — and is now using it to train AI.

They will now «establish a system allowing its allies to train their artificial intelligence» on it, Reuters reports.

They are already launching a project with Palantir to produce an AI on the combat data.

The data includes «extensive battlefield information, logs of combat statistics and millions of hours of drone footage,» Reuters writes.

Training an AI for combat needs tons of real-world data, preferably from a real battlefield, not simulations — and this data will be immensely important for Ukraine’s allies, who are all busy developing combat AI drones as we speak.

Read more: Reuters, Financial Times and The Independent.