Wednesday, December 1, 2010

AI: No command, and control

See original story at The Economist

Can AI agents make better decisions under stressful situations than humans? Some people think so:
"ARMIES have always been divided into officers and grunts. The officers give the orders. The grunts carry them out. But what if the grunts took over and tried to decide among themselves on the best course of action? The limits of human psychology, battlefield communications and (cynics might suggest) the brainpower of the average grunt mean this probably would not work in an army of people. It might, though, work in an army of robots."