DARPA Wants to Teach Computers How to Think

DARPA Wants to Teach Computers How to Think: "The government’s first obsession was with finding as many ways of collecting data as possible. Everything has been utilized, from strapping cameras to soldiers and drones, creating models of war zones, cities, and modeling terrorist behavior. But now with all of this data at the government’s disposal, they’re getting too swamped and are running out of analyst manpower.

The Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) intends to rememdy this shortage of labor by creating a tool that will not only collect data, but will analyze it too. So how does the government plan on accomplishing this mighty task?

The plan is to get a team of mathematicians to create a new language for all of the military’s machines and technology to communicate with together. They also intend to build complex formulas and algorithms into the language so that the machines can not only communicate with each other, but also learn from the data they collect and be able to analyze it without the need for human interaction."