"ALGORITHMS: Bootstrapped learning beats AI"

SRI International recently has won the role of system integrator for a new approach to AI funded by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (Darpa). Called Bootstrapped Learning, the initial phase begins immediately, funded by a $10 million, 15-month plan to develop the cornerstone for the program: a learning system called Phased Learning through Analyzing, Teaching and Observation (Plato). If all phases of the development program are completed, up to $27 million will be invested in the program by Darpa over the next 3 1/4 years. Bootstrapped Leaning scraps the unachievable goals originally set for AI expert systems in favor of a feasible one: learning a task from a human instructor, such as teaching an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to fly itself.
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