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DARPA Wants Computers That Fuse With Higher Human Brain Function

coondoggie writes "In the never-ending quest to get computers to process, really understand and actually reason, scientists at Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency want to look more deeply into how computers can mimic a key portion of our brain. The military's advanced research group recently put out a call, or Request For information, on how it could develop systems that go beyond machine learning, Bayesian techniques, and graphical technology to solve 'extraordinarily difficult recognition problems in real-time.'"

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  1. Re:The Inevitable Future by RenderSeven · · Score: 4, Informative

    "supersoldier," in a way that will compromise the long term health or well being of he human being.

    I think the idea is to compromise the health of the other human being.