One of the most interesting things about this year's DARPA budget is its foray into artificial intelligence.
A few weeks back I looked at some of their initiatives on robotics.
But it goes beyond that.
For example, over the next year, $33,678,000 will be spent on developing Cognitive Systems... different from conventional computing systems in that they draw inferences from rich structured representations of their knowledge, learn from experience, mix symbolic logical knowledge with uncertain and probabilistic information, allow reflective reasoning, and support the integration of perceptual (e.g., visual, auditory) data with symbolic information. The novel forms of computation developed in Cognitive Systems will revolutionize future military systems. Next-generation computer systems will rely upon reasoning, learning, and self-monitoring to handle increasingly complex tasks. These systems will be advisable, adaptable and able to cope with surprise. The Cognitive Systems Foundations project will develop the necessary foundational software methods and hardware architectures to facilitate the learning and inference crucial to intelligent computing. These new computing foundations will help us move far beyond today’s standard Von Neumann computing model.
Cognitive Systems... dynamically adapt, collect and assimilate large quantities of systems operation data, and remain robust even under aggressive attacks or failure conditions. Cognitive Systems Foundations will enable future computer systems to be more responsible for their own configuration, monitoring, protection and restoration to full functional and performance capabilities...
Overall this project seeks to make fundamental scientific improvements in our understanding of, and ability to, create more intelligent information and computing systems. Transition goals include next-generation network-centric systems and platform-specific information collection and processing systems in space, air, sea and land...
Really, who needs Total Information Awareness.
What's needed is a system that can decide what it needs, and obtain data for itself.
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This is a serious issue, as sci fi writers and Bill Joy has warned. Most people dismiss the coming "singularity" as "you can't stop progress". To defend ourselves against our defenders, maybe a FOSS project to do the same as DARPA should be set up.
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