Ignorance Is Futile: Just one of DARPA’s many AI programs cost taxpayers $150M. Now basically considered a success, SRI who built “Siri” has now sold it to Apple for up to $250M. In effect, we’ve all paid $1 to help build a Skynet prototype. Since I don’t agree with this type of research, for many [...]
Posts Tagged ‘DARPA’
*Apple buys DARPA’s Skynet precursor “Siri”. Where’s our tax refund?
Posted: July 9, 2010 in 2010, ExclusivesTags: Artificial Intelligence, DARPA, ObamaCo., Technocrats
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-Facebook: the CIA conspiracy.
Posted: July 1, 2010 in 2007, ArticlesTags: COINTELPRO, Computerization of Society, DARPA, Spooks, The Pentagon
NZHerald: …there is a dark side to the success story that’s been spreading across the blogosphere. A complex but riveting Big Brother-type conspiracy theory which links Facebook to the CIA and the US Department of Defence. The CIA is, though, using a Facebook group to recruit staff for its very sexy sounding National Clandestine Service. [...]
-DARPA’s Omnipresent High Performance Computing (OHPC) Program.
Posted: June 26, 2010 in 2010, ArticlesTags: Artificial Intelligence, DARPA
Network World: Not known for taking the demure route, researchers at DARPA this week announced a program aimed at building computers that exceed current peta-scale computers to achieve the mind-altering speed of one quintillion (1,000,000,000,000,000,000) calculations per second. Dubbed extreme scale computing, such machines are needed DARPA says to “meet the relentlessly increasing demands for [...]
*Danger Room Headlines: 2010 to date.
Posted: May 5, 2010 in 2010, Articles, VideosTags: American Imperialism, Big Brother, Crowd Control, DARPA, Drones, Energy, Google, Mad Science, PRopaganda, Spooks, The Pentagon
WIRED’s Danger Room had too much relevant content so far this year for it to make sense trying to repost it all. The code from pasting their headlines went haywire, no time to manually fix, sorry. Can Algorithms Find the Best Intelligence Analysts? Seeing Tongue, Spray-On Skin, Transplanted Hand: Top Officer Encounters Military’s Extreme Medicine [...]
-Obama order resembles controversial Bush-era data-mining “TIA”.
Posted: April 27, 2010 in 2010, ArticlesTags: Big Brother, DARPA, ObamaCo., Privacy
NEXTGOV: The Obama administration has called for the development of a computer network that one security expert said on Tuesday resembles a controversial system that President Bush initiated after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, which was eventually abandoned due to public outcry over invasions of privacy. In 2002, under the leadership of John Poindexter, former national [...]
