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I can only wonder what DARPA are doing currently behind all the secrecy, assuming whatever disclosed in the book is, let say, 20 years back technology. p/s: th

I can only wonder what DARPA are doing currently behind all the secrecy, assuming whatever disclosed in the book is, let say, 20 years back technology. p/s: there doesn't seems to be a lot of red-tape in approving whatever the 'researchers' wants to do, at least in the past

themodelplumber 10y ago
They were asking after therapeutic nanoparticles 6 years ago, so by now there's probably some foreign head of state with a full Fantastic Voyage crew sailing around his nervous system, waiting for the signal.
- RobertoG 10y ago
  why foreign? you lack imagination, my dear friend.
  - InitialLastName 10y ago
    Por que no los dos?!?
fapjacks 10y ago
You can actually see what DARPA wants to do by looking at their business solicitations. The US government makes a giant wishlist available as a website for businesses to browse and submit proposals for. The last few years, the big ticket item for most organizations is some kind of artificial intelligence that can intelligently process mountains of data. DARPA wants one, too. But they're also into some kinkier stuff.
- 3131s 10y ago
  As one related example, DARPA is interested in "explainable artificial intelligence". Essentially machine learning where the decision making process and intermediary steps are less opaque to humans. http://www.darpa.mil/program/explainable-artificial-intelligence http://www.darpa.mil/program/explainable-artificial-intellig...
  - killjoywashere 10y ago
    What's funny is Google's actually doing a fair bit of this already with the TensorFlow playground, flow-based programming, Distill, etc. DoD will shower money on researchers, but those same researchers will do the work for Google for stock, a decent salary, and access to interesting problems that don't involve killing people.
    - Sunset 10y ago
      But making intelligent killing machines is half the fun of heralding into a Terminator inspired future distopia.
    - Teever 10y ago
      > but those same researchers will do the work for Google for stock, a decent salary, and access to interesting problems that don't involve killing people. Regardless of origin you can rest assured the technology will make its way into the hands of a killer. It always does.
    - nl 10y ago
      That's not what "explainable ML is". That project is about explaining how (say) a given classifier came to a decision on a given set of data. This is fairly easy on a tree-based classifier, but on a deep neural network is extremely difficult. The most impressive piece of work I'm aware of in this area is LIME, from “Why Should I Trust You?” Explaining the Predictions of Any Classifier[1] The acknowledgement section of that paper read, in part: This work was supported in part by ONR awards #W911NF-13-1-0246 and #N00014-13-1-0023, and in part by TerraSwarm, one of six centers of STARnet, a Semiconductor Research Corporation program sponsored by MARCO and DARPA. Today I saw ELI5[2], which encapsulates LIME and a number of other similar tools. [1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1602.04938.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1602.04938.pdf [2] http://eli5.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ http://eli5.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
  - jstanley 10y ago
    This is a 404 page now.
- dsfyu404ed 10y ago
  I hope you don't think they don't have a wish-list that you can't see because I assure you, they have one. They're not gonna publish an RFP for something that's actually groundbreaking. That's gonna be classified.
  - theWatcher37 10y ago
    RFP: quantum algorithms, lots of them ;)
  - fapjacks 10y ago
    But that's not what I said, is it?
AnonNo15 10y ago
Fairly interesting genetic live-editing program: http://www.darpa.mil/attachments/IA%20ProposersDay.pdf http://www.darpa.mil/attachments/IA%20ProposersDay.pdf This program has civilian uses, but can be weaponized easily.
- ohblahitsme 10y ago
  Link seems to be dead. Is there another copy somewhere?
  - mtreis86 10y ago
    They missed a %20 from the link http://www.darpa.mil/attachments/IA%20Proposers%20Day.pdf http://www.darpa.mil/attachments/IA%20Proposers%20Day.pdf

themodelplumber 10y ago

They were asking after therapeutic nanoparticles 6 years ago, so by now there's probably some foreign head of state with a full Fantastic Voyage crew sailing around his nervous system, waiting for the signal.

RobertoG 10y ago
why foreign? you lack imagination, my dear friend.
- InitialLastName 10y ago
  Por que no los dos?!?

fapjacks 10y ago

You can actually see what DARPA wants to do by looking at their business solicitations. The US government makes a giant wishlist available as a website for businesses to browse and submit proposals for. The last few years, the big ticket item for most organizations is some kind of artificial intelligence that can intelligently process mountains of data. DARPA wants one, too. But they're also into some kinkier stuff.

3131s 10y ago
As one related example, DARPA is interested in "explainable artificial intelligence". Essentially machine learning where the decision making process and intermediary steps are less opaque to humans. http://www.darpa.mil/program/explainable-artificial-intelligence http://www.darpa.mil/program/explainable-artificial-intellig...
- killjoywashere 10y ago
  What's funny is Google's actually doing a fair bit of this already with the TensorFlow playground, flow-based programming, Distill, etc. DoD will shower money on researchers, but those same researchers will do the work for Google for stock, a decent salary, and access to interesting problems that don't involve killing people.
  - Sunset 10y ago
    But making intelligent killing machines is half the fun of heralding into a Terminator inspired future distopia.
  - Teever 10y ago
    > but those same researchers will do the work for Google for stock, a decent salary, and access to interesting problems that don't involve killing people. Regardless of origin you can rest assured the technology will make its way into the hands of a killer. It always does.
  - nl 10y ago
    That's not what "explainable ML is". That project is about explaining how (say) a given classifier came to a decision on a given set of data. This is fairly easy on a tree-based classifier, but on a deep neural network is extremely difficult. The most impressive piece of work I'm aware of in this area is LIME, from “Why Should I Trust You?” Explaining the Predictions of Any Classifier[1] The acknowledgement section of that paper read, in part: This work was supported in part by ONR awards #W911NF-13-1-0246 and #N00014-13-1-0023, and in part by TerraSwarm, one of six centers of STARnet, a Semiconductor Research Corporation program sponsored by MARCO and DARPA. Today I saw ELI5[2], which encapsulates LIME and a number of other similar tools. [1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1602.04938.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1602.04938.pdf [2] http://eli5.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ http://eli5.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
- jstanley 10y ago
  This is a 404 page now.
dsfyu404ed 10y ago
I hope you don't think they don't have a wish-list that you can't see because I assure you, they have one. They're not gonna publish an RFP for something that's actually groundbreaking. That's gonna be classified.
- theWatcher37 10y ago
  RFP: quantum algorithms, lots of them ;)
- fapjacks 10y ago
  But that's not what I said, is it?

AnonNo15 10y ago

Fairly interesting genetic live-editing program: http://www.darpa.mil/attachments/IA%20ProposersDay.pdf http://www.darpa.mil/attachments/IA%20ProposersDay.pdf This program has civilian uses, but can be weaponized easily.

ohblahitsme 10y ago
Link seems to be dead. Is there another copy somewhere?
- mtreis86 10y ago
  They missed a %20 from the link http://www.darpa.mil/attachments/IA%20Proposers%20Day.pdf http://www.darpa.mil/attachments/IA%20Proposers%20Day.pdf