strategic computing initiative

  • Feature: DARPA Tried To Build Skynet In The 1980s

    Feature: DARPA Tried To Build Skynet In The 1980s

    Matt Novak

    From 1983 to 1993, the US Government’s DARPA program spent over $US1 billion on a program called the Strategic Computing Initiative. The agency’s goal was to push the boundaries of computers, artificial intelligence, and robotics to build something that, in hindsight, looks strikingly similar to the dystopian future of the Terminator movies. They wanted to…