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DARPA’s a Bit Concerned About Tactical-Puking Attacks
In a scene seemingly pulled directly out of Cyberpunk 2077, DARPA, the army’s top research and development arm, is reportedly exploring ways to defend Army soldiers against “cognitive attacks” that could result in them puking under their HoloLens mixed reality headsets. Future wars, it seems, will be fought with guts in more ways than one.…
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This AI is Being Used to Detect ‘Violations of Social Norms’ in Text
New research funded by the U.S. Pentagon suggests that artificial intelligence can scan and analyse blocks of text to discern whether the humans who wrote it have done something wrong or not. The paper, written by two researchers at Ben-Gurion University, leverages predictive models that can analyse messages for what they call “social norm violations.”…
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From Semis to Surveillance: Kodiak Robotics Awarded $AU75 Million Pentagon Contract for Autonomous Vehicles
The U.S. military’s long, often winding road to rolling out autonomous vehicles has, to this point, mostly disappointed energetic technologists eager to see human drivers eliminated from combat scenarios. Though the Pentagon’s largest research agency has spent the better part of two decades fiddling with autonomous tech, now the Department of Defence is turning to…
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The Pentagon’s Long Road to an Army of Autonomous Vehicles
Silicon Valley’s Patagonia-wearing elites aren’t the only ones interested in autonomous vehicles.