Source: the Defense Department wants to put a total of $1.7B toward the new Joint Artificial Intelligence Center over the next five years
Cade Metz / New York Times : Tweets: @benioff and @stevekopack Tweets: Marc Benioff / @benioff : “In the eyes of some researchers, creating robotic vehicles and developing robotic weapons are very different. And they fear that autonomous weapons pose an unusual threat to humans.” http://www.nytimes.com/... Steve Kopack / @stevekopack : Defense Secretary Jim Mattis sent a memo to Trump in May, imploring him to create a national strategy for artificial intelligence. He argued that the US was not keeping pace with the ambitious plans of China and other countries. http://www.nytimes.com/...