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I'm curious what the meaning behind the recognition is. Is it "this has applications potentially anywhere!" Is it actually code for "very dangerous military ap
by lelandbatey 3y ago
I'm curious what the meaning behind the recognition is. Is it "this has applications potentially anywhere!"
Is it actually code for "very dangerous military applications, DARPA please pay attention to me!"
- lupire 3y agoSwarm of killer robots.
- koolba 3y agoIt’s code for: We’re not sure what it can do, but throw some more money at us and we’ll eventually tell you!
- epgui 3y agoIt’s code for: we are really interested in continuing to research this and we believe it’s important (for reasons that nobody will really understand apart from the other 5-6 world experts), so we are making this statement as much of a marketing stretch as possible without it being technically dishonest. Getting research funding is just a brutally competitive game.
- jacquesm 3y agoIn lots of published papers there is some kind of call-out for the requirement of future research. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=more+research+is+needed&btnG= https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=more... A sentence like that or a variation thereof is part of the 'dance' around funding.
- Jweb_Guru 3y agoIt's code for "this is important and useful to the world, but probably won't lead to any immediately practical applications from the perspective of the funders (economically, militarily, etc.). But we have to say it might or we won't get funded."