informationweek.com— The U.S. Department of Defense is looking to develop virtual parents to comfort children when moms and dads on active duty aren't available to talk.
Jan 4, 2009View in Crawl 4
This is a first stage SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) project. The military uses the first stage SBIRs to do proof of concept on a lot of their insane research ideas for super cheap. Kind of using small businesses as a distributed think tank. They're generally things like "Can we create a hand held device that will transmit video through 500 feet of rock?" It looks like someone just rephrased the Turing test. So, instead of reading, "Is it possible to create a natural language machine that's indistinguishable from a human?" The question is "Can we create a machine that's indistinguishable from a particular human?" The prof they got a hold of probably has no idea what the research program is designed for and never heard of the proposal until a reporter dropped it on her desk. The military is throwing a little of it's weight behind some pure academic research and not spending a lot of money doing it.
nirav72Jan 5, 2009
Ok..that is creepy.
mksmothersJan 5, 2009
Daddy can't be dead. I just talked to him.
silveravntJan 5, 2009
creapy
themonkeyofloveJan 5, 2009
This is a first stage SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) project. The military uses the first stage SBIRs to do proof of concept on a lot of their insane research ideas for super cheap. Kind of using small businesses as a distributed think tank. They're generally things like "Can we create a hand held device that will transmit video through 500 feet of rock?" It looks like someone just rephrased the Turing test. So, instead of reading, "Is it possible to create a natural language machine that's indistinguishable from a human?" The question is "Can we create a machine that's indistinguishable from a particular human?" The prof they got a hold of probably has no idea what the research program is designed for and never heard of the proposal until a reporter dropped it on her desk. The military is throwing a little of it's weight behind some pure academic research and not spending a lot of money doing it.
governmentsgunJan 5, 2009
Funny enough, I was in the Air Force too! Nice to meet you.Love your comment. Dugg you up. :)
mpwnsJan 5, 2009
brings a new meaning to the "blue screen of death".
siszamJan 6, 2009
That's just sick. We sent your mom or dad to be killed but here is a nice video. Sleep tight. So wrong.
coyote1284Jan 7, 2009
@popcornI was going more for the Gundam Seed/00 reference