Advancing AI with grand challenges, greater security -- GCN

In the history of driverless cars, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's 2004 and 2005 Grand Challenges contributed to improving the tech to the point of viability. The government could play a similar role in the development of artificial intelligence, said Jack Clark, the director of Open AI, at an April 18 congressional hearing focusing on government's role in artificial intelligence. DARPA's 2016 Cyber Grand Challenge concentrated on autonomous systems and is a model other agencies can adopt, Clark said during a hearing of the House Oversight's Subcommittee on Information Technology "Every single agency has … problems it's going to encounter, and it has competitions that it can create to spur innovation, so it's not one single moonshot, it's a whole bunch of them," he told lawmakers during the hearing. "I think every part of government can contribute here." This is the third hearing this subcommittee has held on AI.