{"id":874,"date":"2018-10-18T10:21:50","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T08:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aireligion.org\/?p=874"},"modified":"2018-10-18T10:22:03","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T08:22:03","slug":"darpa-is-pumping-2bn-into-ai-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aireligion.org\/?p=874","title":{"rendered":"DARPA is pumping $2bn into AI projects"},"content":{"rendered":"

DARPA shows it\u2019s not just about\u00a0creepy robots<\/a>\u00a0with a $2 billion funding announcement for various AI projects over the next five years.<\/p>\n

The so-called \u2018Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency\u2019 researches a range of innovative new technologies. Many of these advancements will have an impact beyond defence.<\/p>\n

As such, DARPA\u2019s funding initiative will be open to applications beyond the defence community. That means any AI project you\u2019re involved with could be in the running to receive a nice cash boost.<\/p>\n

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DARPA is calling its campaign \u2018AI Next\u2019 and applications are now open. Previous similar initiatives from the agency have been wildly successful.<\/p>\n

Back in 2004, DARPA held \u2018Grand Challenges\u2019 with a $2 million first-place prize. Challengers had to race autonomous vehicles.<\/p>\n

In the first year\u2019s race, there were no winners. Just a year later, five vehicles crossed the finishing line. The initiative was lauded for creating a huge leap for driverless cars.<\/p>\n

Fast-forward three years and those vehicles were successfully navigating traffic as part of the \u2018Urban Challenge\u2019 by DARPA.<\/p>\n

In fact, even Siri (yes, the one which may be on your iPhone right now) was first created in part from DARPA funding. We\u2019re talking before it was acquired by Apple, back when it was developed by SRI in Menlo Park.<\/p>\n

DARPA is looking to make a similar leap in artificial intelligence with its AI Next initiative. The agency is focusing on the \u2018third wave\u2019 of AI which adds \u201ccontextual reasoning\u201d (otherwise known as common sense to most of us).<\/p>\n

That means future AIs will be able to analyse scenarios they\u2019ve not been specifically trained for, much like humans.<\/p>\n

Beyond simply being able to recognise there\u2019s a person stood on the beach with a bottle of water, for example, it could notice things such as sand on the knees and equipment lying around which suggests the individual is hydrating after a game of volleyball.<\/p>\n

This category in DARPA\u2019s initiative is aptly called \u2018Machine Common Sense\u2019. Others include \u2018Learning with Less Labels\u2019 which aims to reduce the cost of labelling data, and \u2018Lifelong Learning Machines\u2019 which focuses on machines\u2019 ability to transfer what\u2019s been learnt from one environment into another.<\/p>\n

Source:\u00a0https:\/\/www.artificialintelligence-news.com\/2018\/10\/09\/darpa-2bn-ai-projects-yours\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DARPA shows it\u2019s not just about\u00a0creepy robots\u00a0with a $2 billion funding announcement for various AI projects over the next five years. The so-called \u2018Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency\u2019 researches a range of innovative new technologies. Many of these advancements will have an impact beyond defence. As such, DARPA\u2019s funding initiative will be open to applications … Continue reading DARPA is pumping $2bn into AI projects<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aireligion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aireligion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aireligion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aireligion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aireligion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/aireligion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":876,"href":"https:\/\/aireligion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions\/876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aireligion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aireligion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aireligion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}