US military uses a Metal Gear trick to defeat AI

<br /><br />One of the strengths of artificial intelligence is that, once this technology is fully mastered, its uses are practically endless. There are already dozens of fields that take advantage of the wisdom of machines to try to increase productivity and efficiency, plus thousands of ongoing research projects aimed at making this technology more effective. One of the areas where a use is being sought, as could hardly be otherwise, is the military. However, at least in one of the latest experiments carried out by the United States Department of Defense, it has been shown that AI isn't much better than the enemies in the Metal Gear games.<br /><br /><br /><br />The Department of Defense's idea was to create an artificial intelligence capable of detecting enemies and, after six days of training the device, they decided to run an experiment in the form of a game on the seventh. A total of eight soldiers had to defeat the machine by trying to touch it without it being able to detect their presence. All of them managed to pass the test using curious methods.<br /><br />

Citar"They didn't defeat the AI with traditional camouflage, but with tricks that were left out of the machine's training plan. Two of them somersaulted for 300 meters without being detected. Two others hid under a cardboard box and you could hear them laughing the whole way. One, my favorite, stripped a fir tree and disguised himself as a tree, walking around with a smile..."

<br /><br />Obviously, the part related to the Metal Gear saga is the legendary box that we've all used at least once to hide and a few more times to troll enemies. In this sense, it's surprising to learn that an artificial intelligence device designed today is not very different from the first games in the saga. Perhaps, in this context, it's even worse: at least the enemies got suspicious when we used a box that was out of place or hid in ways that were too obvious.<br /><br /><br /><br />Despite everything, it's also a very clear example that lets laypeople in artificial intelligence discover how it works. "The artificial intelligence had been trained to detect humans walking, not to raise the alarm when they do somersaults, boxes appear moving around or someone is disguised as a bush. These simple tricks, which a human would have recognized immediately, were enough to break the algorithm." After all, artificial intelligence tools don't think for themselves. Although they can 'learn', they only do what they are programmed to do.<br /><br /><br />All that said, this doesn't mean artificial intelligence tools are bad. Just a few days ago we saw how, after six hours of tinkering with different programs, a user was able to create an impressive animated Batman short.<br /><br />Source: Los enlaces son solo para miembros. Registrate o iniciá sesión