![]() ![]() Check Out the 2017 Naval Future Force S&T Expo! is a contractor for ONR Corporate Strategic Communications. “Will that combination yield a game-changing idea or solution, or will the MMOWGLI platform teach us something about our traditional thought processes?” “We mainly want to understand what occurs when your insights merge with the observations and actions of another player,” he continued. “MMOWGLI was designed to identify solutions to difficult challenges by tapping into the intellectual capital of a broader community,” said Garth Jensen, director of innovation at Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock, who is leading the project. Past games focused on combating piracy off the coast of Somalia reducing the Navy’s reliance on fossil fuels and streamlining the acquisition process. “Singularity” is only the latest topic tackled by MMOWGLI since it first was launched in 2011. Ideas that prove especially popular and achieve a critical mass can be elevated to action plans for further development or adoption. This is a complex, open-ended problem, so we’re looking for people from all walks of life-Navy, non-Navy, technologist, non-technologist- to help us design our Navy for a ‘post-Singularity’ world.”ĭuring the game, players can post ideas, and interact with each other to build, counter, debate, re-direct or call for further expertise. “What we can’t see, yet, is what lies over that horizon. Eric Gulovsen, ONR’s director of disruptive technology. “Technology has advanced to the point that we can see the Singularity on the horizon,” says Dr. Scheduled to last one week, the Massive Multiplayer Online Wargame Leveraging the Internet (MMOWGLI) exercise will crowdsource online players to determine ways to address what’s known as the “Singularity”-the potential future emergence of “greater-than-human” intelligence resulting from increasingly powerful technology. ![]() The game can run in any web browser on a personal computer or laptop. On March 27, however, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) will sponsor the launch of a different kind of multiplayer online war game-hoping to recruit a community of more than 1,000 players to collaborate on solving real-world problems facing the U.S. By Warren Duffie Jr., Office of Naval ResearchĪRLINGTON, Va.-Think of military-themed multiplayer games, and first-person shooter successes like “Call of Duty” or “Halo” likely come to mind. ![]()
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