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DARPA Testing Numenta's Brain Tech
lousyd writes "CNN Money reports that DARPA and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency have given $4.9 million to Lockheed Martin to develop an image recognition system that will be used to scan satellite images and photographs for familiar objects. Called Object Recognition via Brain-Inspired Technology (ORBIT), the system will fuse commercial airborne EO and LIDAR sensor data into a three-dimensional, photo-realistic model of the landscape. The brains of the system, so to speak, will be Numenta's Hierarchical Temporal Memory technology, modeled on the technology growing inside human heads. The system is expected to increase image analysts' productivity by 100 times."
...and just get someone to fly around in a jet doing this?Might want to check the price of a new long-range jet, the fuel to run it, and the pilot's salary.
Last time I checked the average person had a brain......
Either you haven't checked in a while, or you live in Akademgorodok...
why do we need to spend so much cash to make a new one!Repeat after me.... "Research and Development is a good thing!"
Don't tell me to get a life. I'm a gamer; I have LOTS of lives!
.... these being the brains that get abducted by aliens, and see images of the virgin mary in slices of toast?
Good luck guys.
Old COBOL programmers never die. They just code in C.