Re: New AI Prize

JXStern wrote:

> On Sun, 05 Oct 2003 02:08:31 GMT, "Jochen Fromm"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >As the difficulty of the conditions is very high -
> >the task is certainly too difficult for one
> >scientist alone - the Prize should be very high,
> >too - let us say a new $10,000,000 Prize -
> >not more than 1/3 of the price for only *one*
> >new F-15 jet plane. Only a larger company
> >or community is able to solve this task. Only
> >a high Prize will motivate a larger community or
> >group to tackle it.
>
> Your wish is granted.
>
> Autonomous weapons are the hottest topic in the U.S. military right
> now, and have been getting increased attention for the past ten years,
> from teleoperated drones to smart bombs, from fighter-plane sized
> UCAVs to hummingbird-sized spies, from submarine drones to toy-sized
> wheeled reconnaissance bots.  The next generation fighter planes are
> already expected to be unmanned.  There's probably more than
> $1,000,000,000 at work today on (non-secret) prototype and production
> projects, with maybe a thousand times that at stake over the next
> twenty years.  And this doesn't even count strategic surveillance
> projects!  Is a trillion dollars a big enough prize for you?
>
> It's both very kewl and very sad at the same time.
>
> We may get self-driving cars and walking war-bots out of the deal, but
> these are still not going to be able to diagnose a disease or choose a
> wine (or write a poem or laugh at a joke) any better than systems from
> twenty years ago.
>
> Joshua Stern
>

The military IS interested in automating medicine as much as possible.
Part of the money does go into medical research...

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