DARPA continues military AI air-traffic project

[The Straight Story]

DARPA continues military AI air-traffic project
Handy for flying cars, machine genocide against fleshies


DARPA, the US warboffin bureau which curls a supercilious lip at established wisdom and tweaks the nose of consensus opinion, has decided to press ahead with its automated artificial-intelligence air traffic control system.

The move is doubly welcome here at Vulture Central: not only is it a tasty tech-news nugget, but the lack of any ultrapuissant automated air-traffic systems is one of the factors delaying our long-awaited flying cars.

Flight International reported yesterday that DARPA has approved the move forward to phase two of GILA, the Generalized Integrated Learning Architecture. GILA, under development by US wartech behemoth Lockheed and academic partners, is intended initially as a planning and training aid for US military air-traffic controllers. In time, it is hoped that the system will be able to learn from its human colleagues and eventually surpass them.

"Eventually will outperform the novice human planner by 125 per cent," Lockheed says.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/12/darpa_ai_air_traffic_kill_robot_flying_car_fun/