- Former Pentagon policy analyst Paul Schare discusses global power and AI in his forthcoming book.
- He wrote that Marines trained robots for the Department of Defense’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
- Robots trained to identify humans were tricked by Marines doing somersaults and hiding in boxes.
The state-of-the-art robots used by the Pentagon had the weakness of being easily manipulated, according to a former policy analyst’s forthcoming book, although robots are trained to identify human targets, most A lackluster robot is easily fooled. disguise
A team from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) trained a robot with a team of Marines for six days, says former Pentagon policy analyst and Army veteran Paul Schare in his forthcoming book, Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence”. Improve artificial intelligence systems.
Scharre did not immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment. “Four Battlefields: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” will be released on February 28.
The Economist defense editor Shashank Joshi said: Posted Some excerpts from Scharre’s book on Twitter. In the text, Scharre details how the Marines devised a game to test the intelligence of his DARPA robots at the end of a training course.
Eight Marines found creative approaches to positioning the robot in the center of the traffic circle and getting close enough to touch it without being detected.
Two of the Marines did a 300-meter somersault. Underneath the cardboard box he already had two people hiding and was giggling the whole time. Another person took a branch from a fir tree and walked, pretending to be a tree, grinning from ear to ear, according to sources in the Petri book.
Not 1 out of 8 detected.
“The AI was trained to detect human gait,” writes Scharre. “It wasn’t that humans did somersaults, hid in cardboard boxes, or disguised themselves as trees.
It is not known when the exercises in Scharre’s book took place, or what improvements were made to the system since then, but the antics of the DARPA robots can lead to poor balance and even accidental death. We have long faced performance obstacles such as gender concerns. AI that behaves in unpredictable ways.
The Department of Defense and DARPA did not immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment.
