Marines fooled DARPA robot by hiding in a box, doing somersaults: book - Business Insider

Former Pentagon policy analyst Paul Scharre discusses global power and AI in his upcoming book.

He writes that Marines trained the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's robots.

In his upcoming book, "Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence," former Pentagon policy analyst and Army veteran Paul Scharre writes that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) team trained its robots with a team of Marines for six days to improve its artificial intelligence systems.

Shashank Josi, defense editor at The Economist, posted several excerpts from Scharre's book on Twitter.

In the passages, Scharre details how, at the end of their training course, the Marines devised a game to test the DARPA robot's intelligence.

Though it is unclear when the exercises in Scharre's book took place, or what improvements have been made to the systems since, DARPA robots' antics have long faced obstacles to their performance, including poor balance and concerns over their potential to cause accidental killings due to AI behaving in unpredictable ways.