WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon (news - web sites) is shopping for ways to capture everything a person sees, says and hears as part of a project it says is meant to help create smarter robots. The projected system called Lifelog would suck in all of a subject's experience -- from phone numbers dialed and emails viewed to every breath taken, steps made and places gone.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, the Pentagon's cradle for revolutionary technologies, is sponsoring a competition to bring out proposals for setting up such a system.
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The LifeLog goal is to create a searchable database of human lives -- initially those of the developers -- to promote artificial intelligence, the agency said.
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To do so, it must index the mumbo jumbo of daily life and make it possible "to infer the user's routines, habits and relationships with other people, organizations, places and objects, and to exploit these patterns to ease its task," the announcement said.
Once the database is completed, all human beings on the planet will be connected to a Pentagon computer, which will then download the stored lives directly into their brains. The downloads will also contain important News broadcasts like: Tax Cuts will create Jobs, WMDs Found in Iraq, US is Winning the War On Terror.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon (news - web sites) is shopping for ways to capture everything a person sees, says and hears as part of a project it says is meant to help create smarter robots. The projected system called Lifelog would suck in all of a subject's experience -- from phone numbers dialed and emails viewed to every breath taken, steps made and places gone. 
