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General Category => Military/Defense News => Topic started by: rangerrebew on May 04, 2019, 12:02:04 pm

Title: DARPA wants AI to make soldiers fitter, happier, more productive
Post by: rangerrebew on May 04, 2019, 12:02:04 pm

DARPA wants AI to make soldiers fitter, happier, more productive
By: Kelsey D. Atherton  

Do our machines know us better than ourselves? And if they did, could they, in the parlance of the Pentagon, use that knowledge to improve our lethality?

DARPA, the Department of Defense’s blue-sky agency, launched April 29 a program to use artificial intelligence to best match interventions for individuals. It is called “Teaching AI to Leverage Overlooked Residuals,” or TAILOR.

Specifically, DARPA is looking for submissions about how to use AI for “Human Performance Optimization,” or HPO. Crucially, DARPA is looking for alternatives to one-size-fits-all approaches, because universal recommendations based on group averages can work at cross-purposes to individual need.

https://www.c4isrnet.com/c2-comms/2019/05/02/darpa-wants-ai-to-improve-human-performance/ (https://www.c4isrnet.com/c2-comms/2019/05/02/darpa-wants-ai-to-improve-human-performance/)