the most depressing work that i had to do was studying human behavior in battlefield environments the battlefield environment brings often in many human beings in some cases the best i mean you can see noble examples these unfortunately are highlights or exceptions in many cases but often we see atrocious behavior literally atrocious behavior where noncombatants are slaughtered and justifiably in the battlefield reading and studying human behavior in the battlefield as part of the work that i did is what caused me to think that we can create robotic systems that can outperform human beings in this case they can act in a more rational i would contend that might sound strange but a more rational manner under these sets of circumstances without having fear of self-destruction or anger or frustration imbedded within them to be able to come up
how to act, how to function in a battlefield environment. we talked about this before, but ben, has anybody people i m sure, some people said to them, don t just keep firing in the air and wasting all your ammunition. and yet we still see them doing that all the time. why? reporter: well, i ve seen this i can t tell you how many times. i ve seen former officers in the libyan army, professional soldiers, who have tried to tell the young men at the front that they shouldn t waste their ammunition, that they should take up defensive positions and shouldn t assume they re always going to be moving forward. but by and large, these people are ignored, largely because there is no command structure. there are no heads of units. there are no officers really. it s just the guy with the biggest voice and the biggest gun will lead the boys forward.
guaranty that they re going to make any progress whatsoever. and this is fairly surprising given that before the real impediment for their advances was the libyan air force. the libyan air force is now gone. there s a no-fly zone. there are nato air strikes. there s several in the area of brega today. but that doesn t seem to be able to provide that critical breaking point they need to move forward. they re still plagued by this chaotic system. they don t have any command and control. they don t even have communications because the cell phone system in this area has gone down. so it is chaos. and it s hard to imagine how they re really going to make any progress whatsoever, given the lack of command and control, given their basic ignorance and how to act, how to function in a battlefield environment. we talked about this before, but ben, has anybody people i m sure, some people said to them, don t just keep firing in
and this is fairly surprising given that before the real impediment for their advances was the libyan air force. the libyan air force is now gone. there s a no-fly zone. there are nato air strikes. there s several in the area of brega today. but that doesn t seem to be able to provide that critical breaking point they need to move forward. they re still plagued by this chaotic system. they don t have any command and control. they don t even have communications because the cell phone system in this area has gone down. so it is chaos. and it s hard to imagine how they re really going to make any progress whatsoever, given the lack of command and control, given their basic ignorance and how to act, how to function in a battlefield environment. we talked about this before, but ben, has anybody people i m sure, some people said to them, don t just keep firing in the air and wasting all your
given that before the real impediment for their advances was the libyan air force. the libyan air force is now gone. there s a no-fly zone. there are nato air strikes. there s several in the area of brega today. but that doesn t seem to be able to provide that critical breaking point they need to move forward. they re still plagued by this chaotic system. they don t have any command and control. they don t even have communications because the cell phone system in this area has gone down. so it is chaos. and it s hard to imagine how they re really going to make any progress whatsoever, given the lack of command and control, given their basic ignorance and how to act, how to function in a battlefield environment.