DARPA is using gamers' brain waves to train robot swarms

A team of artificial intelligence researchers at the University at Buffalo plans to study the brain waves and eye movements of around 25 people, Digital Trends reports, while they play a video game. They'll then use the information they glean from the gamers to build an advanced AI -- so that it can then coordinate the actions of entire fleets of autonomous military robots. The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency -- better known as DARPA -- has awarded the UB team a $316,000 grant for the study, which researcher Souma Chowdhury told Digital Trends is moving at "a pretty aggressive pace." The team still needs to gather the gamer data, but that shouldn't take too long. The researchers have already built a real-time strategy game for the study, with a round of the game taking about five to 10 minutes to complete.