Can an AI guru find fulfillment by pushing corporate trainingware?
SEE ALSO Archive Category: Computers Robots & AI “First, introduce yourself, tell him who you are,” says Lt. Col. Robert Miles, keeping it simple and leaving nothing to the imagination, as military leadership style so often requires. “Tell him you’ve been watching CNN, you just heard the president commit to sending troops, and you want to help. You have 14 C-130s in Europe, but most of them are in the US, and you want to get them where they’re needed.” Miles is speaking to me from a 21-inch computer monitor; his straight-shooting, if not exactly avuncular, monologue is interred on 12 Gbytes of optical disc. The disc also includes some 32 other Army talking heads who dutifully dish out 21 hours altogether of high-quality video advice on how to arrange the transportation of military aircraft and vehicles in the event of a crisis. This is happening at a posh and obscenely well-equipped software think tank called the Institute for the Learning Sciences, located just outside Northwestern Un
