Thursday, April 12th., 2018
2004:Το σκοτεινό Πεντάγωνο κι η Ντάρπα αποσύρονται ...το δόλιο Φέϊσμπουκ εμφανίζεται!
To Facebook γεννήθηκε την ίδια ακριβώς ημέρα, 4 Φεβρουαρίου 2004, 14 χρόνια πρίν, που το Πεντάγωνο εγκατέλειψε το Πρόγραμμα LifeLog, Δημιουργίας και Τήρησης Βάσης Λεπτομερειακών Δεδομένων γιά κάθε άνθρωπο επί της Γής, την υλοποίηση του οποίου είχε αναλάβει η DARPA!Παράδοση της κακοήθους σκυτάλης από το ένα χέρι στο άλλο γιά το θόλωμα των νερών...μ.λ.π.
"...Run by Darpa, the Defense Department's research arm, LifeLog aimed to gather in a single place just about everything an individual says, sees or does: the phone calls made, the TV shows watched, the magazines read, the plane tickets bought, the e-mail sent and received. Out of this seemingly endless ocean of information, computer scientists would plot distinctive routes in the data, mapping relationships, memories, events and experiences.
LifeLog's backers said the all-encompassing diary could have turned into a near-perfect digital memory, giving its users computerized assistants with an almost flawless recall of what they had done in the past...."
2004:Το σκοτεινό Πεντάγωνο κι η Ντάρπα αποσύρονται ...το δόλιο Φέϊσμπουκ εμφανίζεται!
To Facebook γεννήθηκε την ίδια ακριβώς ημέρα, 4 Φεβρουαρίου 2004, 14 χρόνια πρίν, που το Πεντάγωνο εγκατέλειψε το Πρόγραμμα LifeLog, Δημιουργίας και Τήρησης Βάσης Λεπτομερειακών Δεδομένων γιά κάθε άνθρωπο επί της Γής, την υλοποίηση του οποίου είχε αναλάβει η DARPA!Παράδοση της κακοήθους σκυτάλης από το ένα χέρι στο άλλο γιά το θόλωμα των νερών...μ.λ.π.
"...Run by Darpa, the Defense Department's research arm, LifeLog aimed to gather in a single place just about everything an individual says, sees or does: the phone calls made, the TV shows watched, the magazines read, the plane tickets bought, the e-mail sent and received. Out of this seemingly endless ocean of information, computer scientists would plot distinctive routes in the data, mapping relationships, memories, events and experiences.
LifeLog's backers said the all-encompassing diary could have turned into a near-perfect digital memory, giving its users computerized assistants with an almost flawless recall of what they had done in the past...."
Pentagon Kills LifeLog Project
The Pentagon canceled its so-called LifeLog project, an ambitious effort to build a database tracking a person's entire existence.
Run by Darpa, the Defense Department's research arm, LifeLog aimed to gather in a single place just about everything an individual says, sees or does: the phone calls made, the TV shows watched, the magazines read, the plane tickets bought, the e-mail sent and received. Out of this seemingly endless ocean of information, computer scientists would plot distinctive routes in the data, mapping relationships, memories, events and experiences.
Run by Darpa, the Defense Department's research arm, LifeLog aimed to gather in a single place just about everything an individual says, sees or does: the phone calls made, the TV shows watched, the magazines read, the plane tickets bought, the e-mail sent and received. Out of this seemingly endless ocean of information, computer scientists would plot distinctive routes in the data, mapping relationships, memories, events and experiences.
LifeLog's
backers said the all-encompassing diary could have turned into a
near-perfect digital memory, giving its users computerized assistants
with an almost flawless recall of what they had done in the past. But
civil libertarians immediately pounced on the project when it debuted
last spring, arguing that LifeLog could become the ultimate tool for
profiling potential enemies of the state.
Researchers
close to the project say they're not sure why it was dropped late last
month. Darpa hasn't provided an explanation for LifeLog's quiet
cancellation. "A change in priorities" is the only rationale agency
spokeswoman Jan Walker gave to Wired News.
However, related Darpa efforts concerning software secretaries and mechanical brains are still moving ahead as planned.
LifeLog
is the latest in a series of controversial programs that have been
canceled by Darpa in recent months. The Terrorism Information Awareness,
or TIA, data-mining initiative was eliminated by Congress – although
many analysts believe its research continues on the classified side of
the Pentagon's ledger. The Policy Analysis Market (or FutureMap), which
provided a stock market of sorts for people to bet on terror strikes,
was almost immediately withdrawn after its details came to light in
July.
"I've always thought (LifeLog) would be the
third program (after TIA and FutureMap) that could raise eyebrows if
they didn't make it clear how privacy concerns would be met," said Peter
Harsha, director of government affairs for the Computing Research Association.
"Darpa's pretty gun-shy now," added Lee Tien, with the Electronic Frontier Foundation,
which has been critical of many agency efforts. "After TIA, they
discovered they weren't ready to deal with the firestorm of criticism."
That's
too bad, artificial-intelligence researchers say. LifeLog would have
addressed one of the key issues in developing computers that can think:
how to take the unstructured mess of life, and recall it as discreet
episodes – a trip to Washington, a sushi dinner, construction of a
house.
"Obviously we're quite disappointed," said
Howard Shrobe, who led a team from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology Artificial Intelligence Laboratory which spent weeks
preparing a bid for a LifeLog contract. "We were very interested in the
research focus of the program ... how to help a person capture and
organize his or her experience. This is a theme with great importance to
both AI and cognitive science."
To
Tien, the project's cancellation means "it's just not tenable for Darpa
to say anymore, 'We're just doing the technology, we have no
responsibility for how it's used.'"
Private-sector research in this area is proceeding. At Microsoft, for example, minicomputer pioneer Gordon Bell's program, MyLifeBits, continues to develop ways to sort and store memories.
David Karger, Shrobe's colleague at MIT, thinks such efforts will still go on at Darpa, too.
"I
am sure that such research will continue to be funded under some other
title," wrote Karger in an e-mail. "I can't imagine Darpa 'dropping out'
of such a key research area."