WASHINGTON - July 20, 2011 - The National Security Agency is working on a computer system that can predict what people are thinking.
"Think of 2001: A Space Odyssey and ITS most memorable character, HAL 9000, having a conversation with David. We are essentially building this system. We are building HAL. The system can answer the question, 'What does X think about Y?'"
These are the words of an unnamed researcher who discussed an amazing artificial intelligence system she was building at the NSA.