DefenceTalkTroops battle through burning streets. Missiles take down fighter jets. Drones pulverize tanks. The dramatic visuals have the trappings of real-life combat, but they are clips from video games fuelling misinformation. Footage from the war-themed Arma 3 video game, often marked “live” or “breaking news” to make it appear genuine, has been used repeatedly in […]https://www.defencetalk.com/war-themed-video-game-fuels-wave-of-misinformation-79698/

DefenceTalkAmerica’s Army is a high-tech organization. “America’s Army,” the video game, is testament to this fact. The Army Game Studio at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, continually works to develop and enhance its educational, outreach and training tools, including the popular combat simulator game for computer platforms that first launched in 2002. The studio may be best […]https://www.defencetalk.com/game-studio-keeps-us-army-outreach-education-high-tech-68807/

DefenceTalkResearchers unveiled a software system Wednesday which had taught itself to play 49 different video games and proceeded to defeat human professionals — a major step in the fast-developing Artificial Intelligence realm. Not only did the system give flesh-and-blood gamers a run for their money, it discovered tricks its own programmers didn’t even know existed, […]https://www.defencetalk.com/rise-of-the-machines-video-gamers-beware-63311/