DARPA Approaches Massive New AI, Machine Learning 'Breakthrough' - Warrior Maven

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is pursuing an unprecedented machine-learning "breakthrough" technology -- and pioneering a new cybersecurity method intended to thwart multiple attacks at one time and stop newer attacks less recognizeable to existing defenses. A DARPA-led "Lifelong Learning Machines" (L2M) program, intended to massively improve real-time AI and machine learning, rests upon the fundamental premise that certain machine-learning-capable systems might struggle to identify, integrate and organize some kinds of new or complicated yet-to-be-seen information. "If something new is different enough, the system may fail. This is why I wanted to have some kind of machine learning that learns during experiences. Systems do not know what to do in some situations," Hava Siegelmann, DARPA program manager at the Information Innovation Office and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts.