October 14, 2008 at 15:55Military AI organizes the life of citizens
Fans of conspiracy theories will love this news.
The new startup Siri , a social service for taking daily notes and a self-learning personal planner, received venture funding of $ 8.5 million yesterday . This unique project is built on an AI engine developed by the military agency DARPA.
The underlying CALO technology (Cognitive Agent that Learns and Organizes) was transferred to the startup under license. It is known that the military agency for five years has invested in its development about $ 200 million. They call CALO "the first real step on the path to artificial intelligence."
A self-learning system is able to analyze user activity, establish logical connections between various actions. Thus, over time, the system begins to intelligently predict and predict user activity, which allows it to independently initiate certain actions in advance. Simply put, this AI system does not just book a place in a hotel, taking into account the current financial condition of the “owner”, as well as his habits, but does so even before the owner decides to go on vacation.
It is clear that the military agency did not create the CALO engine at all for vacation planning, but for completely different purposes. However, many details about the project are still not known. Startup Siri is now at the early alpha stage.
The new startup Siri , a social service for taking daily notes and a self-learning personal planner, received venture funding of $ 8.5 million yesterday . This unique project is built on an AI engine developed by the military agency DARPA.
The underlying CALO technology (Cognitive Agent that Learns and Organizes) was transferred to the startup under license. It is known that the military agency for five years has invested in its development about $ 200 million. They call CALO "the first real step on the path to artificial intelligence."
A self-learning system is able to analyze user activity, establish logical connections between various actions. Thus, over time, the system begins to intelligently predict and predict user activity, which allows it to independently initiate certain actions in advance. Simply put, this AI system does not just book a place in a hotel, taking into account the current financial condition of the “owner”, as well as his habits, but does so even before the owner decides to go on vacation.
It is clear that the military agency did not create the CALO engine at all for vacation planning, but for completely different purposes. However, many details about the project are still not known. Startup Siri is now at the early alpha stage.