Idea for a new government agency

[phrostbyte]

The National Intelligent Computing Agency or NISA:

An agency in a similar vein to NASA who's purpose is to develop technologies (hardware/software) in the fields of:

Bioinformatics
Machine learning
Computer vision / image processing
Natural language processing
Robotics / Haptics
Software automation
Theoretical computer science
General AI


All unclassified technology to be released under the public domain.

For the working purpose of:

Improving quality of life
Military advantages
Reducing the dependency of human labor
Commercial / economic advantages


And an ultimate purpose of:

Developing a general/strong AI
Reaching a technological singularity


Questions/comments?

[JDShu]

It would probably be easier to just boost funding to the NSF.

[phrostbyte]

It would probably be easier to just boost funding to the NSF.

The NSF basically funds other institution's research, it's a bit different. But I have no qualms with increasing the funding to the NSF. :)

[JDShu]

haha yeah but if you want more public domain research, then funding universities through the NSF is a good way to do this.

[GregBrannon]

Please, let's not give the gov't more of our money to make our lives better.

[NCLI]

Please, let's not give the gov't more of our money to make our lives better.

Why not? Better than giving them to greedy private corporations.

[JDShu]

Lets keep the topic on science and efficiency instead of politics.

I think that starting a new government agency would have a clear disadvantage where you'd need to pay for administration costs, when that money could have just gone into research. University research is already (mostly) public sector, because academics take pride in expanding knowledge. Their motivation is creating something useful and publishing it in Science or Nature or something. The NSF and Department of Defense fund much of the research in the science and technology fields. So a simple way to boost research is to boost the funds alloted to the NSF.

[dragos240]

Politics! Sorry, had to say it.

[scouser73]

The National Intelligent Computing Agency or NISA:

An agency in a similar vein to NASA who's purpose is to develop technologies (hardware/software) in the fields of:

Bioinformatics
Machine learning
Computer vision / image processing
Natural language processing
Robotics / Haptics
Software automation
Theoretical computer science
General AI


All unclassified technology to be released under the public domain.

For the working purpose of:

Improving quality of life
Military advantages
Reducing the dependency of human labor
Commercial / economic advantages


And an ultimate purpose of:

Developing a general/strong AI
Reaching a technological singularity


Questions/comments?

Did you mean NSA, as in the National Security Agency?

http://www.nsa.gov/

[HappinessNow]

Politics! Sorry, had to say it. exactly

[Tibuda]

Politics! Sorry, had to say it.


exactly


Lets keep the topic on science and efficiency instead of politics.

I think it is kinda hard to not talk about politics when the thread title have the word "government".

But on-topic, I think universities do a good job at research.

[phrostbyte]

This may be political, but it's directly related to free and open source software.

Some of the comments are pretty interesting here regarding NSF/Universities but I think I'm going to make another topic to elaborate on this.

[Shpongle]

Im all for improving the quality of life for everyone but the only people that seem to want the change are those at the venus project

http://www.thevenusproject.com/