Palantir Explained
December 28, 2010
The Stanford GSB So Speaks Blog gives us details about “Shyam Sankar of Palantir Technologies at the GSB.” Palantir is company focused on counter-terrorism within and by using the digital environment. It’s better explained by this video. If you’ve ever seen an episode of NCIS, this is type of program they use to help them catch the bad guys. Apparently, four engineers developed Palantir within a week and the company was founded by the same team as PayPal—used by many EBay aficionados for secure business transactions. They’ve also invented a new buzzword: intelligence augmentation (IA).
“Palantir focuses on IA, rather than AI (Artificial Intelligence). Sankar mentioned a theory on AI stating that AI will continue to be “around the corner in 10 years” in perpetuity. As a result, Palantir focuses on augmenting the intelligence we already have.”
Palantir appears to be a superhero like program, but they are involved in a legal squabble. I may need intelligence augmentation to figure out who’s on first in that matter.
Stephen E Arnold, December 28, 2010
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