It is really difficult to read what the next project of DARPA and not think about the computer Skynet of Terminator . The American Research Agency Defense Advanced Research Projects just started a new line of research called BRASS. Its aim is to design a software able to learn and adapt to new situations alone.
BRASS is an acronym for Building Adaptive Software Systems . The acronym already suggests that DARPA researchers have just begun to develop this project. Nothing firm. In fact, this April 8 have held the first symposium to try to establish what would be the guidelines for developing such software.
In essence, what DARPA is solve is the eternal problem of updates. Current systems need to be updated again and again with increasing managing network or system requirements, or simply new, more advanced equipment are introduced. What BRASS aim is to create a software platform which algorithms are able to detect changes in the system and adapt. The agency wants software that is able to learn of the changes and adapt to them for at least 100 years.
DARPA does not speak at any point in artificial intelligence, but Semantic other programs capable of abstraction and analysis of changes in their environment. The concept is dangerously close to too many science fiction stories in which a software eventually realize their own existence and decides the best way to adapt is to eliminate the creators of the equation. [DARPA via Network World]
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