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  • DARPA’s a Bit Concerned About Tactical-Puking Attacks

    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.…


  • This AI is Being Used to Detect ‘Violations of Social Norms’ in Text

    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.”…