DARPA is Pouring Millions Into a New AI Defense Program (protocol.com) 16
The Pentagon is teaming up with some of the biggest names in tech to combat hacks designed to mess with the automated systems we'll rely on in the near future. From a report: In February, DARPA issued a call for proposals for a new program. Like most DARPA projects, it had a fantastic acronym: Guaranteeing Artificial Intelligence (AI) Robustness against Deception (GARD). It's a multimillion-dollar, four-year initiative that's aiming to create defenses for sensor-based artificial intelligence -- think facial recognition programs, voice recognition tools, self-driving cars, weapon-detection software and more. Today, Protocol can report that DARPA has selected 17 organizations to work on the GARD project, including Johns Hopkins University, Intel, Georgia Tech, MIT, Carnegie Mellon University, SRI International and IBM's Almaden Research Center. Intel will be leading one part of the project with Georgia Tech, focusing on defending against physical adversarial attacks. Sensors that use AI computer vision algorithms can be fooled by what researchers refer to as adversarial attacks. These are basically any hack to the physical world that tricks a system into seeing something other than what's there.
Welcome Skynet! (Score:2)
Our new AI overlords!
Should have been named (Score:3)
Guaranteeing Artificial Intelligence from Deception Adding Robustness (GAIDAR)
Re: (Score:1)
The Federated Association of Global Gatherings Intelligence Trackers?
Re: Should have been named (Score:2)
Ah mockery and misspelling; a potent combination.
Defense against AI? (Score:2)
Good, we're gonna need it.
You want computer defense? (Score:1)
Stop using commercially available operating systems, morans.
Re: (Score:2)
Learn to use a commercially available spell checker, moron.
Here's a quick outline... (Score:2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
In the end it works for humanity...
All those universities... (Score:1)
Since this is DARPA, presumably the universities named will be participating through the research labs they operate (largely) for the benefit of the government (JHU-APL, GTRI, MIT/LL, CMU-SEI)?
Going to need a bigger budget (Score:2)
DARPA is needing to develop entirely new paradigms to tackle the deep technological threat of... stickers [extremetech.com].
Good luck with that (Score:2)
" think facial recognition programs, voice recognition tools,"
Masks are here to stay, just as the condoms are since HIV, so facial recognition and mumbling through a mask will make this more difficult.
Money for nothing, chicks for free (Score:1)
With $8 TRILLION in "stimulus" and the Fed giving banks free money to prop up the markets, and an additional $5 TRILLION in national debt in the past 3.5 years, on top of $3 TRILLION worth of tax cuts for the rich, I don't ever again want to hear anyone say, "But how are we going to pay for it?" when discussing free tuition, student loan forgiveness or Medicare-4-All.
Oh, who'm I kidding? The next time there's a Democrat in the White House, we'll immediately start hearing again all about how we need "fiscal
This is year-old news (Score:1)