Pentagon: Human-thinking machines are the answer to cyberthreats

Machines that can reason like humans are necessary to protect the United States in the future, according to the Pentagon’s head of developmental research.

“Part of the problem in cyberspace is it’s not as if it’s a stable environment, and if you just catch up you’ll be OK,” said Arati Prabhakar, director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. “Hiring lots of people, training them, patching and praying … that’s not going to get us the kind of scale we need for the future.”