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Well, OP was talking about billions of dollars of DARPA funding going towards military AI research. I presume they would be trying to get much closer to cogniti
by irrational 6y ago
Well, OP was talking about billions of dollars of DARPA funding going towards military AI research. I presume they would be trying to get much closer to cognition.
- dogma1138 6y agoWhy would you want cognition? Besides the billions of edge cases it may create why would you want to make a tool you can or would have to reason with?
- inetknght 6y ago> why would you want to make a tool you can or would have to reason with? Some might ask the same question in the context of human children.
- philwelch 6y agoI would question that assumption. Autonomous military equipment (vehicles, planes, etc.) doesn’t require cognition in order to be useful.
- CarbyAu 6y agoI obviously can't speak for Defence but my understanding was that a lot of the training et al was so that high command could have predictable outcomes. They may give troops on the front line some leeway, but within parameters for pursuit of a goal. I don't think Defence wants "uncontrolled" anything. Even if they manage to develop fully cognizant AI they will want to know the exact parameters it can work within. Of course, humans make errors...