Matthew Nelson
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is inviting potential vendors to submit ideas on how to develop an artificial intelligence process that would help computers to acquire language.
DARPA said Thursday in a FedBizOpps notice it seeks basic research concepts of a grounded language acquisition prototype designed to comprehend English speech and text and distribute usable data through automated analytics.
The model should learn to connect verbal and textual input with images, videos and live scenes as well as a language acquisition curriculum to describe unseen relations, events and entities. A proposer may use a 3D vision technology in a custom built or a preloaded environment, according to the agency.
Interested vendors have until April 26 to provide submissions.
The agency noted proposers should assume a June 25 start date for the GAILA program and that it expects to award a potential $1M other transaction agreement for the prototyping project.
