Agents from the Future
(Room S320GH)
30 Nov 17
8:30 AM
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10:00 AM
Speaker(s):
Webb Stacy, Aptima, Inc.; Benjamin Bell, Eduworks; J.T. Folsom-Kovarik, Soar Technology, Inc.; Todd Griffith, Discovery Machine, Inc.; Randy Jensen, Stottler Henke Associates, Inc.; Sean Guarino, Principal Scientist, Human Effectiveness, Charles River Analytics Inc.; Walter Warwick, Principal Consultant, TiER1 Performance Solutions; Drew Rosoff, Chief Executive Officer, CHI Systems, Inc.; Winston “Wink” Bennett, Division Technical Advisor, Warfighter Readiness Research Division, AFRL
Simulation is a key asset for efficient, effective training. Simulation science and technology have made great strides to improve training; however, DoD needs radical advances in at least two areas of simulation:
• Costs must drop — Most current simulations require a white cell operator, controller, or pucksters. This raises the cost of ownership. It restricts the use and distribution of simulators to the times and places that simulation operators are available.
• Cognitive fidelity must rise — Most simulations present constructive or non-player characters that cannot smartly exercise and advance the tactical decision skills of trainees.
Intelligent agents can help lower cost of ownership by reducing the demand for human operators. They can help raise cognitive fidelity by delivering dangerously smart behaviors in training.
AFRL is sponsoring a multi-year project to develop and test these agents. This special event will present the challenge, and the responses by eight leading developers of intelligent agents. Their presentations will address advances in tactical responsiveness and intelligence; use of simulator data to drive agents and even learn them; and tools for building and testing agents.