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DARPA Contracts For AI Technology

Posted by timothy on from the that-darn-skynet-is-already-late dept.

heptapod writes "USA Today is reporting that DARPA has contracted two professors from RPI to develop artificial intelligences that can learn by reading and understanding natural language. Interesting taking DARPA's Grand Challenge into account. Mentioned in the article is Cycorp, Inc. which has been pursuing this goal since 1994!"

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  1. In other news.... by cyberkahn · · Score: 4, Funny



    DARPA announced today the funding for Skynet.

    1. Re:In other news.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Yeah, I heard they contracted Google to build it...

    2. Re:In other news.... by MeanGene · · Score: 4, Funny

      In Year 2005 DARPA announces 1-year funding for SkyNet
      In Year 2006 DARPA grants a 2-year extension
      In Year 2008 SkyNet learns reading and writing Esperanto (because English is too hard)
      By Year 2010 US military switches to Esperanto for all of its communications, SkyNet replaces Joint Chiefs of Staff

      In Year 2011 SkyNet becomes self-aware and switches to Chinese...

  2. Don't Worry by djroute66 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I have enough dynamite to blow up 10 super-computers!!!

  3. But: by Lost+Penguin · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can it read books on AI; and then design a better, smarter AI?

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    I am the unwilling control for my Origin.
  4. RPI Cognitive science project by LordRPI · · Score: 2, Funny

    There was an article that hit the New York times back in the fall of 2004 mentioning Professor Bringsjord and having a computer program write fiction. Perhaps this is to better write stories for elected officials to tell?

  5. Re:This is AI? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    > Ask it to write an essay with a definative argument and
    > solid conclusion based on the material read would impress
    > me, not regurgitating facts and figures found in a book.

    You expect too much from the people who brought us the American public school system.

  6. Do you want to play a game? by FusionDragon2099 · · Score: 1, Funny

    How about a nice game of chess? Or Global Thermonuclear War?

  7. Re:CycCorp by ElAurian · · Score: 2, Funny

    For example, say you want to be intelligent about nuclear reactors. You have two choices:

    - You could build a nuclear reactor
    - You could also read up a lot of information on nuclear reactors</i>

    Okay, so we either ask an artificial intelligence to build us a nuclear reactor (presumably after giving it materials, robots to work with etc) or we send it to Wikipedia to learn about reactors.

    I don't know which is more frightening.

  8. Cycorp= by Jaidon · · Score: 2, Funny

    Cylons?

  9. Re:Prolog 2 anyone by _Hellfire_ · · Score: 2, Funny

    This AI and natural language thing gives ne deja-vue

    Don't worry about that, it's just a glitch. It happens sometimes when the AI's change something.

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    "And then I visited Wikipedia ...and the next 8 hours are a blur..."