{"id":57225,"date":"2017-05-06T17:02:32","date_gmt":"2017-05-07T00:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/the-military-is-using-human-brain-waves-to-teach-robots-how-to-shoot"},"modified":"2017-05-06T17:02:32","modified_gmt":"2017-05-07T00:02:32","slug":"the-military-is-using-human-brain-waves-to-teach-robots-how-to-shoot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/the-military-is-using-human-brain-waves-to-teach-robots-how-to-shoot","title":{"rendered":"The Military is Using Human Brain Waves to Teach Robots How to Shoot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-military-is-using-human-brain-waves-to-teach-robots-how-to-shoot.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Without even realizing it, soldiers could soon be training robot sharpshooters to take their jobs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Modern sensors can see farther than humans<\/strong>. Electronic circuits can shoot faster than nerves and muscles can pull a trigger. Humans still outperform armed robots in knowing what to shoot at \u2014 but new research funded in part by the Army may soon narrow that gap.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from DCS Corp and the Army Research Lab fed datasets of human brain waves into a neural network \u2014 a type of artificial intelligence \u2014 which learned to recognize when a human is making a targeting decision. They presented their <a href=\"http:\/\/dl.acm.org\/citation.cfm?id=3038444&dl=ACM&coll=DL&CFID=758734904&CFTOKEN=58856769\">paper<\/a> on it at the annual <a href=\"http:\/\/iui.acm.org\/2017\/\">Intelligent User Interface<\/a> conference in Cyprus in March.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/technology\/2017\/05\/military-using-human-brain-waves-teach-robots-how-shoot\/137622\/?oref=DefenseOneFB&utm_content=buffer85703&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer\">http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/technology\/2017\/05\/military-using-...ign=buffer<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Without even realizing it, soldiers could soon be training robot sharpshooters to take their jobs. Modern sensors can see farther than humans. Electronic circuits can shoot faster than nerves and muscles can pull a trigger. Humans still outperform armed robots in knowing what to shoot at \u2014 but new research funded in part by the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}