Raytheon Developing Machine Learning that will Communicate what it Learned

Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) announced that it is developing a machine learning technology under a $6 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for the Competency Aware Machine Learning program. According to the defense contractor and technology company, Systems will be able to communicate the abilities they have learned, the conditions under which the abilities were learned, the strategies they recommend and the situations for which those strategies can be used. Ilana Heintz, principal investigator for CAML at Raytheon BBN Technologies explained that, "The CAML system turns tools into partners… It will understand the conditions where it makes decisions and communicate the reasons for those decisions." The machine learning technology will learn from a video game like process. Meaning that instead of giving the system a specific set of rules, the developers will tell the system what choice it has in the game and what the end goal is.