The world we live in is so strange at times that we see reality that in the most absurd arguments in fiction come true in reality. On multiple occasions, Hideo Kojima’s detractors in particular have mocked his type of ideas, but reality over time has been in charge of agreeing with the creative to such an extent that some consider him a visionary. Well, if you are one of them, get ready to hear the following.
If you played any game Metal Gear, you might find it absurd that Solid Snake or Raiden used a cardboard box to use as a disguise so that they would not be discovered by enemies, including cameras and robots. Well, as absurd as it may seem, reality once again proved Hideo Kojima right.
We say this because getting into a cardboard box to avoid detection and deceive the enemy is, in effect, one of the techniques that US sailors are using in the middle of 2023.
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Like in Metal Gearmilitary hide in boxes to avoid detection
You read it right, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) believed it had the most refined algorithm for detecting people and after several tests, sailors were asked to try to outwit artificial intelligence.
To do this, they carried out a field test and placed the robot in the middle of a roundabout. The mission was then for the sailors to try to approach the robot without being detected and whoever succeeded, won. All this is exposed in the book of defense expert Paul Scharre Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (via Twitter), which will debut on February 23 and in which he touches on the battle to control artificial intelligence.
Despite the trust that the managers had in the algorithm, some sailors managed to fool the robot. A couple managed to do it by running 300 meters doing somersaults, another managed to do it by disguising himself as a tree, but the most interesting technique was the one used by 2 soldiers, who got into a cardboard box and simply walked up to the robot without being detected.
“You could hear them laughing all the time,” said Phil, who was in charge of the experiment.
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The boxes fooled artificial intelligence
Although the author of the book likened this scenario to something typical of Bugs Bunny in a cartoon from looney toonsplayers will undoubtedly be able to find the similarity rather with Snake and Raiden from Metal Gear.
While this is fascinating, it’s important to remember that the peculiar infiltration techniques worked against a robot, something that would hardly have been possible if the enemy were human.
“So these simple tricks, which a human would have easily figured out, are enough to break the algorithm,” Scharre added.
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