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Marines fooled a DARPA robot by hiding in a cardboard box while giggling and pretending to be trees
In his upcoming book, "Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence," former Pentagon policy analyst and Army veteran Paul Scharre writes that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) team trained its robots with a team of Marines for six days to improve its artificial intelligence systems...
Eight Marines placed the robot in the center of a traffic circle and found creative ways to approach it, aiming to get close enough to touch the robot without being detected.
Two of the Marines did somersaults for 300 meters. Two more hid under a cardboard box, giggling the entire time. Another took branches from a fir tree and walked along, grinning from ear to ear while pretending to be a tree, according to sources from Scharre's book.
Not one of the eight was detected.
"The AI had been trained to detect humans walking," Scharre wrote. "Not humans somersaulting, hiding in a cardboard box, or disguised as a tree. So these simple tricks, which a human would have easily seen through, were sufficient to break the algorithm."
Marines fooled a DARPA robot by hiding in a cardboard box while giggling and pretending to be trees
Marines fooled a DARPA robot by hiding in a cardboard box while giggling and pretending to be trees
- Former Pentagon policy analyst Paul Scharre discusses global power and AI in his upcoming book.
- He writes that Marines trained the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's robots.
- The robots, trained to identify humans, were fooled by Marines doing somersaults and hiding in boxes.
In his upcoming book, "Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence," former Pentagon policy analyst and Army veteran Paul Scharre writes that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) team trained its robots with a team of Marines for six days to improve its artificial intelligence systems...
Eight Marines placed the robot in the center of a traffic circle and found creative ways to approach it, aiming to get close enough to touch the robot without being detected.
Two of the Marines did somersaults for 300 meters. Two more hid under a cardboard box, giggling the entire time. Another took branches from a fir tree and walked along, grinning from ear to ear while pretending to be a tree, according to sources from Scharre's book.
Not one of the eight was detected.
"The AI had been trained to detect humans walking," Scharre wrote. "Not humans somersaulting, hiding in a cardboard box, or disguised as a tree. So these simple tricks, which a human would have easily seen through, were sufficient to break the algorithm."
Marines fooled a DARPA robot by hiding in a cardboard box while giggling and pretending to be trees
