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| DARPA Has A Brand New Game |
| 2011-04-09 |
| DARPA wants to put your strategic savviness to real military use by integrating its Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel (ACTUV) configurations into the sub-hunting simulator game Dangerous Waters. Download and play the game, and your tactical prowess may just be implemented into ACTUV's prototype software. DARPA's ACTUV program aims to develop new tools for anti-submarine warfare that include unmanned autonomous ocean-going vessels that can track quiet submarines hiding in the depths. But in order to figure out what tactics work (and don't work) for their ACTUV software, they need to test a variety of maneuvers and sub-hunting configurations in naval scenarios. That's where the crowdsourcing comes in. At the end of each round, the software will ask if you want to send your game data to DARPA for analysis--and for possible use in the crafting of ACTUV's software brain, once it is developed. Corner the crafty AI sub commander, and your data could inform a future line of defense against threats from the deep. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose |
| #3 At the end of each round, the software will ask if you want to send your game data to DARPA for analysis--and for possible use in the crafting of ACTUV's software brain Very smart. DARPA wants to use large numbers of human decisions (the successful ones) to program their ASW neural net. |
| Posted by: Zebulon Thranter9685 2011-04-09 09:11 |
| #2 That would be Awesome, Joseph! Hmmm..... |
| Posted by: newc 2011-04-09 04:06 |
| #1 Artic read, TURNING SUBMARINES INTO SUBMERSIBLE AIRCARFT CARRIERS = UW "BATTLESPACE" MOTHER SHIPS. Eventually. * "HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER" > D *** NG IT, HE REALLY WANTED TO HAVE TWO WIVES, LOTS OF RABBITS, + SEE MONTANA! |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-04-09 00:31 |