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artificial intelligence (අස්වාභාවික ඥානය)

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How artificial intelligence could help spies do their jobs ( කෘතිම බුද්ධි තොරතුරු ඔත්තුකාරයන්ට උදව් කරන්නේ කොහොමද?) Consider the job of an intelligence analyst—someone who has to sift through vast amounts of information and figure out the bigger narrative. The raw data this hypothetical analyst looks at could be anything from a report on the ground, to government statements, to items in the local media. The analyst’s job—looking at data, synthesizing it in a report—is rich territory for artificial intelligence to help out, according to a new company called Primer. Primer has developed an AI system that’s in part intended to augment the job of an intelligence analyst at a spy agency. Intelligence isn’t the only field they’re working in—their partners include Walmart and a sovereign wealth fund in Singapore—but it’s perhaps the most intriguing. An intelligence analyst's mission "is to make sense of the world around you,” says Sean Gourley, Primer's found