Mentoring

Mentoring is a relationship in which knowledge and skills are shared between members in a way in which everyone benefits. Often a more senior person is mentoring a junior person, but mentorship can happen between any two individuals. Mentoring will help Airmen and Guardians discover their strengths by achieving their full potential through a structured, trusting mentoring relationship.

Find a mentor and become a mentor! It’s easy to do both by registering in MyVector. In 2021, we completely redesigned the Mentoring platform in MyVector based on your feedback. New features include:

Ability to self-identify as someone seeking a mentor or someone who wants to be a mentor
Track the status of their mentoring requests
Updated Resources page
Enhanced messaging capability that allows users to send messages to mentors
Additional search filters:
ethnicity, race, disability, Exceptional Family Members Program (EFMP), MAJCOM, organizations, and ranks
Ability for mentees to share documents with mentor
Sister Service mentor/mentee enabled capability
CFM ability to assign mentors to mentees (Spring 2022)

Log into MyVector, check out the new capabilities, and find your mentor today at https://myvector.us.af.mil!

2023 Autonomous Horizons Part 2

Air Force Research Laboratory

Video by Kevin D Schmidt

Sept. 8, 2023 | 57:47

In this 2-part edition of QuEST, U.S. Air Force Senior Scientist and QuEST co-founder Dr. Steven K. “Cap” Rogers, ACT3 Chief Technology Officer Dr. Michael J. Mendenhall, ACT3 Chief Scientist Dr. Gilbert L. Peterson, and ACT3 Senior Scientist Dr. Kevin Schmidt discuss the 2019 publication Autonomous Horizons II: The Way Forward.

Key Moments and Questions in the videos include:
Discussion of October 2023 event “AI for Humanity” sponsored by AFRL
Clarifications among definitions of intelligence, consciousness, and qualia
Historical perspective from Cap on Autonomous Horizons origins
Groundwork for report - A2/AD operational space and implications for ‘intelligent autonomy’
Multiple streams of research and development leading to a common framework for responsible autonomous systems
Question for group: What is cybernetics?
Question: Shouldn’t we also have the inverse of “Cognitive computational models of humans for systems” to account for human understanding of systems logic?
Example architectural pattern for autonomous system development; building a better human-machine interface
Human-like dialogue as explanations from the system to the human; experience versus explainability
Distinction between explicit and implicit as relating to consciousness More

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