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Software Agents Can Help Time-Stressed Teams
Roland Piquepaille writes "Penn State researchers have developed software agents which can help human teams to react more accurately and quickly in time-stressed situations than human teams acting alone. According to this news release, the software was tested in a military command-and-control simulation. "When time pressures were normal, the human teams functioned well, sharing information and making correct decisions about the potential threat." But when the pressure increased, the human teams made errors who would have cost lives in real situations. The decisions taken by agent-supported human teams were much better. Now, it remains to be seen if this software can be used in other stressful situations, such as for emergency management operations. Read more for other details, references and illustrations about this project."
"I see that you're trying to bomb someone..."
Obligatory clippy quote:
"I see you are trying to bomb a school in Iraq. Would you like to use
1) Cluster bombs
2) Napalm
3) Air burst firestorms
4) Nuclear bunker-buster
Select one of these options."
And you didn't even need the support of a software agent in making this decision! Rawk!
Man is a slave because freedom is difficult, whereas slavery is easy.
My god I hope MS doesn't create an Agent for military purposes.
I can see it now...
Looks like you're trying to take out a machine gun nest!
"Hi! I'm Charlene the M-14! I can help you make your assault! Would you like to..."
*Call for helicopter support *Use diversionary tactics *Throw a grenade
http://www.masternewmedia.org/2003/11/05/the_futur e_of_web_conferencing_good_interviews_roland_pique paille.htm
..and, DUDE, what's with that "photo?" We like ourselves, don't we, Roland?
Independent, eclectic, multidisciplinary, witty.
Here is Roland Piquepaille, unique scientist, researcher, reporter, opinion maker and journalist who doesn't wait for the approval fo the Queen to speak his mind out loud.
Roland is one of the high priests of the blogosphere, one very qualified writer and attentive spectator to the ongoing phantasmagoric circus offered by new technologies and their new potential interactions with us.
Roland is in many ways what "WIRED" the magazine, used to be for me: a window at the intersection of technology and social issues, with enough RAM and CPU power to critically appreciate, comment and question the infinite new opportunities brought about by new technologies to change and improve the world we inhabit.
Reminds me of the Laurie Anderson bit where she's reading this nauseatingly overwraught and self-involved blurb about her latest show... and then realizes, oh crap, that's the bio from the press release I wrote myself.
Edit -> Undo Bombing That Shit
I can reliably produce blue-screens-of-death on my 98 box.