DARPA Trains AI To Understand Humans – In Minecraft – Tech Check News

Before artificial intelligence wields weapons in real-world battle, the Pentagon needs to test its AIs in virtual environments. That's why DARPA, the Pentagon's blue-sky projects agency, is developing an AI that can communicate with humans in games, as well as manage and understand the peculiarities of a human team in action. See, central to the US military's enthusiastic embrace of artificial intelligence is the idea that AI and robotics can never replace human troops, but they can work with them in a human-machine team that is much […]