ABC News has an article about Reasonable Computers and The Next Steps in `Artificial Intelligence'. It appears that DARPA has given CMU $7 million to develop cognitive computers as a part of the PAL project (Perceptive Assistant that Learns). CMU's part will be to develop a RADAR (Reflective Agents with Distributed Adaptive Reasoning) system that's kind of like a personal assistant. The PAL project will be for academic, military, and business use. It seems that DARPA wants to see AI grow up so that we all can have smarter more reasonable robots!

Here's some reasonable articles...

• Researchers Push for Computers That Think
• Neural-Network Technology Moves into the Mainstream
• Pentagon Wants to Make a New PAL
• The bosses' PAL
• And more

Older Robots.net AI articles...

• Greenpeace Targets Robots, AI, and Nano
• Minsky: AI is Brain-Dead
• AI's Second Century
• Do Movie Robots Really Have AI?
• Marvin Minsky on the Failure of AI