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A Peek Inside DARPA's Current Projects

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the al-gore-unavailable-for-comment dept.

dthomas731 writes to tell us that Computerworld has a brief article on some of DARPA's current projects. From the article: "Later in the program, Holland says, PAL will be able to 'automatically watch a conversation between two people and, using natural-language processing, figure out what are the tasks they agreed upon.' At that point, perhaps DARPA's PAL could be renamed HAL, for Hearing Assistant That Learns. The original HAL, in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, tells the astronauts how it knows they're plotting to disconnect it: 'Dave, although you took thorough precautions in the pod against my hearing you, I could see your lips move.'"

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  1. DARPA Slogans by Paulrothrock · · Score: 5, Funny

    DARPA: We don't make the things that kill people. We make the things that kill people better. DARPA: We bring good things to life... that are then used to kill people. DARPA: Who do you want to kill today?

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  2. I worked will on a DARPA... by WED+Fan · · Score: 3, Funny

    DARPA has yet to acknowledge the project that I was working on 3 years from now in 2010. Last week, January 14, 2012 we will successfully tested the Time Redaction Project. So, I gave myself the plans tomorrow so that I will be submitting them a few years ago to get the grant money. DOD has used this to send a nuke to kill the dinosaurs. I hope it works.

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    1. Re:I worked will on a DARPA... by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 2, Funny

      Not anymore, your mom was just assassinated before your birth by an android you failed to prevent the invention of.

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    2. Re:I worked will on a DARPA... by Slightly+Askew · · Score: 4, Funny

      So, I wiollen have given myself the plans tomorrow so that I wiollen be submitting them a few years ago to get the grant money.

      There, fixed that for you.

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  3. Same sex conversations only... by haggie · · Score: 5, Funny
    using natural-language processing, figure out what are the tasks they agreed upon.

    This would only work for conversations between people of the same sex. There has never been a conversation between a man and a woman in which both participants would agree on the tasks...

    M: Want to continue this conversation at my place?
    F: Take a leap!
    Computer: Agreed to move conversation to male's residence by leaping.

    F: When are you going to mow the lawn?
    M: Yeah, I'll get right on that.
    Computer: Male agreed to mow lawn at earliest opportunity