DARPA Contracts For AI Technology

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!"

In other news....

[cyberkahn]

DARPA announced today the funding for Skynet.

Don't Worry

[djroute66]

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

Re:In other news....

[Anonymous Coward]

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

But:

[Lost Penguin]

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

RPI Cognitive science project

[LordRPI]

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?

Re:This is AI?

[Anonymous Coward]

> 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.

Do you want to play a game?

[FusionDragon2099]

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

Re:CycCorp

[ElAurian]

<i>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.

Cycorp=

[Jaidon]

Cylons?

Re:In other news....

[MeanGene]

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...

Re:Prolog 2 anyone

[_Hellfire_]

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.