Gamers Will Help Create An AI That Will Control Military Drones

Numerous reports have shown the advantages of computer gaming. These reports state that regular gamers acquire several skills by playing their favourite RPG or FPS games. The skills include better decision making, focused hand-eye coordination, strong teamwork and enhanced critical thinking skills.

To have advantage of these skills acquired past gamers around the world, researchers from the Academy of Buffalo volition be edifice an AI that can command autonomous air and ground robots for the military.

How Volition They Build The AI

The scientists will develop a armed forces strategy game based on the 1998 strategy game, Starcraft and the 2007 title Company of Heroes. They volition and so invite players to play the game in their labs.

While the participants play the game, the scientists will record every parameter of the gamers. This will include their determination making, paw and center movements and brainwave patterns. The eye movements will be recorded using high-speed cameras and to monitor the brainwaves, electroencephalography (EEG) headsets volition be used.

With the extracted data from the gamers, the researchers volition create algorithms that will be able to command and lead a minimum of 250 democratic drones to carry out war machine operations.

The scientists aim to create a much advanced AI system that tin can sympathize the motivations of human behaviour and actions. Souma Chowdhury, the assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace technology at the School of Technology and Applied Sciences had this to say – " We don't want the AI system only to mimic human behaviour; nosotros desire information technology to form a deeper agreement of what motivates human actions. That'south what will lead to more advanced AI,".

The Defence Advanced Research Projects Bureau (DARPA) will exist funding the whole project. They also posted a video (in a higher place) recently, showcasing how their swarms of drones tin conduct military raids in urban areas. The main aim of these drones will be to collect information and provide insights to the ground military units.