On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 5:04 PM, Dirk Bruere <dirk.bruere@gmail.com> wrote:

I find it difficult to believe that at least the NSA is not funding AI to this level.

The thing about government agencies (US government agencies, in particular) is that they are brutally pragmatic. If they thought - really, really thought - that having a human-equivalent AGI running in a data center would let them accomplish their goals, they'd do it in a heartbeat. There's no guarantee that it would actually happen, because the government/contractors system is horribly inefficient, but an attempt would be made. It seems, by all accounts, that the NSA is more concerned with being able to break crypto than they are having a human-equivalent intelligence. From what I've heard from more-or-less reliable sources, they need raw number crunching power and disk space for huge rainbow tables to do what they need to do and be able to show results. If anything, I think the DoD would be more interested in having an AGI, but they have more than enough trouble to deal with on the infosec side of the house. -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS|Media] https://drwho.virtadpt.net/ "I am everywhere." -- -- Zero State mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/DoctrineZero --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Doctrine Zero" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to DoctrineZero+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE