{"id":82425,"date":"2018-09-08T09:02:21","date_gmt":"2018-09-08T16:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/defense-department-pledges-billions-toward-artificial-intelligence-research"},"modified":"2018-09-08T09:02:21","modified_gmt":"2018-09-08T16:02:21","slug":"defense-department-pledges-billions-toward-artificial-intelligence-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/defense-department-pledges-billions-toward-artificial-intelligence-research","title":{"rendered":"Defense Department pledges billions toward artificial intelligence research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/defense-department-pledges-billions-toward-artificial-intelligence-research.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The military\u2019s research arm said Friday it will invest up to $2 billion over the next five years toward new programs advancing artificial intelligence, stepping up both a technological arms race with China and an ideological clash with Silicon Valley over the future of powerful machines.<\/p>\n<p>The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, part of the Defense Department, said it will fund dozens of new research efforts as part of a \u201cThird Wave\u201d campaign aimed at developing machines that can learn and adapt to changing environments.<\/p>\n<p>DARPA director Steven Walker announced the effort Friday to an audience from American academia, private industry and the military at a symposium outside Washington, saying the agency wants to explore \u201chow machines can acquire human-like communication and reasoning capabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2018\/09\/07\/defense-department-pledges-billions-toward-artificial-intelligence-research\/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.2367146e67ae\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2018\/09\/07\/defense...67146e67ae<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The military\u2019s research arm said Friday it will invest up to $2 billion over the next five years toward new programs advancing artificial intelligence, stepping up both a technological arms race with China and an ideological clash with Silicon Valley over the future of powerful machines. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, part of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}