it's easier to get AI vaporware funded than to get language programs fundedhttps://twitter.com/DARPA/status/1076190850651164674 …
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also this sort of thing has been around for decades and decades, and maybe the thing that's been holding us back has really been computing power, but on the other hand maybe it hasn't
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I got to talk to a DARPA person a few years back; their big AI push at the time was building systems that could analyze academic publications in IR, etc., and draw inferable conclusions from them about how the world worked.
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Either I or someone else asked: couldn't you just, like, fund academic work, and ask the academics what it all means? No, no, that's absurd. We need a computer program that can read the work, we can't actually just fund the work itself, or talk to people.
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I laughed, I cried
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They wanted an AI to... write Sparknotes for them, and do the midterm?
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