'Artificial intelligence (AI) systems could help robots assist soldiers in the battlefield', say US Scientists

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems that could help robots assist soldiers in battlefield in future are being developed by scientists in US.

For research, published in journal Science vances, team looked at soldier brain activity during specific tasks for ways to incorporate AI teaming to dynamically complete tasks.

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Techlogies that can predict states and behaviors of individual soldier may help create a more optimized team, informed Jean Vettel, a senior neuroscientist at Army Research Laboratory (ARL) in US.

In order to predict such behavior and consequently optimize team performance, ARL and University at Buffalo are looking at ways dynamics and architecture of human brain may be coordinated.

"In military operations, soldiers perform multiple tasks at once. y're analyzing information from multiple sources, navigating environments while simultaneously assessing threats, sharing situational awareness, and communicating with a distributed team," said Vettel.

"This requires soldiers to constantly switch among se tasks, which means that brain is also rapidly shifting among different brain regions needed for se different tasks. If we can use brain data at moment to indicate what task y're doing, AI could dynamically respond and apt to assist Soldier in completing task," he ded.

researchers first sought to understand how brain coordinates its different regions while executing a particular task in order to achieve this future capability.  y used a computational approach to understand how this may be characterized to inform behavioral prediction.

y n mapped how different regions of brain were connected to one ar in 30 different people via tracts of tissue called white matter, refore taking ir study furr.

Scientists converted se maps into computational models of each subject's brain and used computers to simulate what would happen when a single region of a person's brain was stimulated.

Post conversion, y n used a mamatical framework, which y developed, to measure how brain activity became synchronized across various cognitive systems in simulations.

"While work has been deployed on individual brains of a finite brain structure, it would be very interesting to see if coordination of Soldiers and automous systems may also be described with this method, too," said Javier Garcia, an ARL neuroscientist.

"Much how brain coordinates regions that carry out specific functions, you can think of how this method may describe coordinated teams of individuals and automous systems of varied skills work toger to complete a mission," Garcia ded.

(With PTI inputs)