The Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) robots were apparently trained to identify human targets — but were easily fooled when soldiers hid in cardboard boxes, a hilarious ...

So Scharre explains how two of the Marines "somersaulted for 300 meters," another two hid under a cardboard box, and another "stripped a fir tree and walked like a fir tree." Apparently a lot of ...

DARPA has trained one of its robots to identify humans. There’s just one little problem: The robot is cartoonishly easy to confuse. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new ...

Who would have thought Metal Gear Solid was a documentary about fighting robots? A group of US Marines evaded detection by an AI robot using a cardboard box according to a new book. The book Four ...

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Hideo Kojima has a pretty great record when it comes to predictions. In Metal Gear Solid 2, he foresaw the downsides of the information economy; In Death Stranding, he tapped into contemporary social ...