Well, Novamente LLC submitted a proposal to this that was rejected.
My impression was that most of the recipients of the BICA funding did
not have credible AGI approaches, and many were in fact relatively new
to the AGI problem.
The recipients were by and large smart scientists with interesting
ideas, but I don't think DARPA did a tremendously good job of picking
out projects with deep and relatively mature AGI designs.
So, I am not too surprised by this conclusion...
-- Ben
Jef Allbright wrote:
FYI,
- Jef
An article in the New Jersey Star-Ledger
<http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-11/1173937313282210.xml&coll=1>
says DARPA has "quietly killed" their project to reverse engineering
the human brain. The project, known as Biologically Inspired Cognitive
Architectures <http://www.darpa.mil/ipto/programs/bica/index.htm>
(BICA), had been compared to other very difficult projects such as the
atomic bomb or moon landing. DARPA has denied requests to explain why
they dropped the project and neuroscientists who were involved said,
"All we know is it's dead". The first phase was a $9.5 million project
planning stage. The cancelled phase 2 was to be a $50-100 million
attempt to design "psychologically-based and neurobiology-based
cognitive architectures" based on the human brain. There is
speculation that DARPA concluded phase 2 was simply to ambitious. For
more detailed information see DARPA's BICA Information Pamplhlet
<http://www.darpa.mil/BAA/pdfs/baa05-18pip.pdf> (PDF format) or the
reports from Phase 1 participants
<http://www.darpa.mil/ipto/programs/bica/phase1.htm>.
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