DARPA Wants Artificial Intelligence That Doesn't Forget Everything It Knows

Biological organisms are pretty good at navigating life's unpredictability, but computers are embarrassingly bad at it. That's the crux of a new military research program that aims to model artificially intelligent systems after the brains of living creatures. When an organism encounters a new environment or situation, it relies on past experience to help it make a decision. Current artificial intelligence technology, on the other hand, relies on extensive training on various data sets, and if it hasn't encountered a specific situation, it can't select a next step. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Activity is searching for technology that constantly updates its decision-making framework to incorporate past experience and new "lessons learned" to situations it encounters.