The Pentagon’s $2 billion gamble on artificial intelligence
by Jamie McIntyre
| October 16, 2018 12:00 AM
It’s the chilling plot line to every science fiction movie about robots in the future: Once they start thinking for themselves, humanity is doomed.
Think of the HAL 9000 in "2001: A Space Odyssey," or the replicants in "Blade Runner," or the hosts in "Westworld."
These days the Pentagon is doing a lot of thinking about the nascent scientific field of artificial intelligence, also known as “machine learning,†developing computer algorithms that will allow cars to drive themselves, robots to perform surgery, and even weapons to kill autonomously.
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