Royal Marine Reacts To Marines Outsmart DARPA's Advanced AI 

Dm sent. You can react to as many of my videos as you want man!

An alleged quote from a soviet WWII era document reads "One of the serious problems in planning against American doctrine is that the Americans do not read their manuals nor do they feel any obligations to follow their doctrine." An American quote from the same time goes "If we don't know what we are doing, the enemy certainly can't anticipate our future actions."

Sergeant: "Lieutenant, sir, you may be able to outsmart me, but I will out-stupid you every day of the week."

I've heard that DARPA is now trying to study Marine intelligence, the most contradictory thing known to possibly exist.

I spent 4yrs with the Marines as a Corpsman. Hiding inside a box is one of the least stupid things I've seen them do.

The Fat Electrician’s sense of humor resonates with veterans. His videos are funny as he!!.

I feel like most of the people here have already seen The Fat Electricians videos. They just want to see other peoples reactions to the videos, because they’re that good! Meaning, we will watch his videos multiple times.

Just to think now. We now have a CLASS of battlegrounds to consider. Cyber, Land, Air, Sea, Space.

I can _hear_ the Marines giggling from in the box. They must've had _so_ much fun that day. His real name is Nic BTW

These are the ones we call Crayon Eaters and Window Lickere, and they still outsmarted it. 😂🤣 Just giving ya crap Marines. Keep up the good work.

You do realize that the U.S. military doesn't really get involved in war games and exercises that aren't specifically designed for us to lose? We don't learn as much about our capabilities by kicking the crap out of people.

I think it was Vietnam but people used to think that Marines were recruited from prisons and insane asylums for this exact reason you never understand what they're going to do until they do it the textbook definition of never let them know your next move

DARPA: We challenge you to defeat our AI Marines: Finally, decades of playing Metal Gear has paid off

Robo drone is a hell of a lot smarter now. This actually happened a while back. Way b4 machine learning could really even be referred to as AI.

Corpsman here. You said something you typically hear on a daily basis, "...very smart from the Marines. Very smart..." (all kidding aside, love Marines. Some of the best potatoes I know.) 🥔🥔🥔

TFE left out 2 key things: the Marine who “ walked like a fir tree” also approached the bot saying “ I’m a fir tree, fir tree” and another 2 Marines used an office chair and one hid behind the chair and pushed the other all the way up to the bot

I remember seeing a video of a marine describing how insurgents in Iraq were hiding from thermal goggles or something. They wore think animal hides to block out their heat. It's crazy how technology can be outsmarted with improvisation

The Fat Electrician comments on a lot of reactors videos. Also a way to easily tell if he has a scene after his outro is if the video tiles appear during his outro music or not.

😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣! Give Marines a task without limitations of how to do said task? Oh Lord! This is gonna get interesting!!!

By the way, thefatelectrician was an Army medic. But I completely understand your point about not reviewing too many. But I highly encourage you as a former Marine myself to watch the most gangster marine ever Dan Daly. That one will make you wow. But I too would love to see him do one on the royal marines.

Saw the video you're reacting to in the thumbnail. I already knew you were going to love it. It makes sense though. It's a case of the "raven paradox." That paradox basically states that "Ravens are birds. Ravens are black. Therefore all black birds are ravens." We all know that's not true, but the "truth" of the first two points are fairly accurate. It's the assumption at the end that makes it a weird paradox of it's not correct, but it's also not technically wrong either. And that's what this AI did. It was with the marines for 6 days and saw that "Humans are this shape. Humans move like this at this speed. Ergo all humans are that shape and only move at that speed and that way." It's surprising that such a human fallacy is like the first thing this AI gets wrong. But can you imagine if this did go out like it did on that day 7? US soldiers would be reporting, "Yeah, some ISIS F*cker came rolling down the mountain with an RPG and the stupid thing didn't warn us!!! No! I mean literally like a ball with an RPG sticking out of it!!!" And DARPA would be there like, "That's not possible! The Marines clearly were outsmarted by our 6 day dataset!!!"

Watch more of his videos! I like watching people like you react to his stories. We need more people doing that.

Like, I know what I did in the Marine Corps, but watching his videos makes me even more proud of selecting that branch for my term of service. Zero regrets, minus not re-enlisting. Marine Corps in a nut shell. Over train, go somewhere "exotic", get piss drunk, wake up the next day, say hold my beer, then proceed to do something that is tactically shouldn't be possible, and go home like looking like you just beat a 12 yr old in a game of fronthand/ backhand.

You're not wrong in supposing that losing a drone to the enemy is potentially very costly. As an IT guy and ham operator, there's a LOT of juicy intel I could pry from an intact enemy drone.

The world we build relies on rules to function. Computers are an extension of this. The Opera algorithms with inset parameters to achieve set goals. AI still operates on these principles even more so. From the beginning military training is designed to break down the rules of society and form a unit that is designed to go against most of the fundamental rules. Boundaries are broken in the military. AI recognition is designed to find all the boundaries. Imagination and creativity are the building blocks of what make humans the most terrifying creature on earth.

AI to First Group: This is wagon wheel. AI to Second Group: This is a Triffid. AI to Third Group: Ooh. And Automated Amazon Box. Hello friend.

In the arly 80s, I went straight from Active Duty to Reserves (and was later re-activated severel times). In my 1st annual training, my unit was supposed to just be a target for recon, infantry, and some air assets. After the first brief, when we learned our job was to be stupid, I heard several Viet Nam vets mumble, "Not on my watch." These vets grabbed every cook, driver, and supply guy (without clearing it), and gave them a crash course in tactics. By the end, we had shattered everything thrown at us. To be fair, the attackers were ALSO told we were their play thing, so they weren't exactly on their game. Nothing that followed in the next 20 years was that much fun.

I don't know the ins and outs of the system they were running, but I think cross referencing the normal camera with a IR camera would have been beneficial to the AI in detecting the Marines. Or at least given it a reason to double check movement that was being detected.

yes, another Quack-Bang react! dude is top shelf!

Just a comment about letting your kids beat you up! I have been teaching my daughters to box since they could stand. So far, my older daughter, (who is now 14) has broken my nose twice and dislocated my jaw once. I consider these signs that I have been doing my job correctly. Keep it up!

You really need to do the percy hobart one. Its actually mind blowing the influence he had on modern warfare

A FatElectrician video on the Royal Marines would be awesome! As an American I support this, I’d love to learn more about our allies across the pond.

There is no such thing as “too much fat electrician.” Anyone who says as much is a fool and should be ignored.

I only served in the Army National Guard, every year we did a major exercise with the regular units of all branches. We were an old TOW unit based in M151A2 Jeeps, we were unconventional to say the least, yet we always came out on top during the exercises. All of us grew up hunting and off roading, we had all kinds of tricks the guys in regular units never thought of.

Dude,.. I'm a fat drunk American but I could watch your video's forever just you hear you say "Fuuurrst-laaaay".....LOL. Good video. Keep it up Bud.

That's a really great point right off the bat about the responsibility the "robo-soldier" would be.

To your point of just another thing for the boots on the ground to take of. I'd argue its not different than bringing in a K9. Same thing, different mechanism.

I had never even considered the use of AI in an optics system to detect enemies. Imagine setting up these cameras in your trench line covering different sectors, and then getting an early warning the moment they detect enemies. Like you said, if the technology is easy enough for boots on the ground that could be a game changer.

_walk like a fir tree_ was golden!

Apoint you brought up... distribution of weight... think about that for a second... this would not ONLY be an early warning system, but also a robotic pack mule... so you carry less, but have more ammo, food, gear and supplies available. Also, destruction of comms is vital to keep encryption software out of the hands of the enemy. This doesnt have to have encrypted 2 way comm hardware in it.

4:30 We used thermite grenades if we had to abandon our tanks. One on the radio, one on the cannon breech and one on the back deck.

All the fuckery will decimate AI learning.

The biggest problem with AI is, that its not an AI. AA [Advanced Algorithm] is much more fitting of a name for this tech we have.

MiIllion dollar robot beaten by the box it came in 😅

I am retired US Marine. We used thermite not phosphorous to destroy things. A phosphorous grenade will throw the burning chemical over 40 meters. Very disconcerting to those around you.

“Never underestimate the strength of absolute stupidity.” Old man reacts. Or atleast where I heard it

Keep up the awesome work Luke, and keep kicking ass! Keep on with TFE! Nic is great!

“The most deadly US task force in history” by general discharge please 🙏

I'm honestly surprised that they didn't just say, "Okay, think of ways to fool this robot, and for every way you think of, you're gonna do several days of it to train the robot for this shit. Get multiple teams for it. Get 30 something teams and get them all to do a single day of training for each insane idea they come up with. After that if the enemy is clever enough to out-ridiculous 30 teams of Marines then they fucking deserve to win.

I was a Vietnam era Medic. The marines were very supportive of us.

The growth of AI and drone warfare is kind of terrifying! The sure fire way to defeat most modern weapons is an EMP. An easy way to create an EMP is a nuclear weapon, especially if a nuclear armed side is losing. Like honestly Ukraine is embarrassing Russia, they have sunk a third of the Russian Black Sea fleet and they don't have a Navy

You can out smart me, but I'll out stupid you and win!

Engineer: NYE HEH HEH YOU CANNOT OUTSMART OUR DEATH MACHINE! IT IS THE FUTURE! Marines: *proceed to destroy billion dollar AI with twigs* Oops, broke the shiny

What about at a FOB working perimeter patrol, 24hrs a day ? Inside the fence, monitoring.

I said it before i'll say it again you just know the guys in the box knew they were doing a metal gear solid cause no way they would be giggling like school girls in a box without knowing what they were doing

His name is Nic, he lives in a small town in Iowa, He is a former 68W Combat Medic in the U.S. Army. After retires from the Army, he is now a journeyman electrician, as well as a Jiu-Jitsu coach. He is also one of the Hosts of the "Unsubscribe" Podcast with Donut Operator, Brandon the AK Guy, and Eli "Double Tap" Chavez. Its hilarious.

Nick's stuff is great I hope you react to some of the longer vids in the future so many are amazing👍

One of the reason his sense of humor appeals to veterans is because he's a former medic who served in the National Guard.

I like the analysis from your soldiering standpoint. I unfortunately can't serve for mental health diagnosis reasons, so that stuff is always not just cool, but very informative on the mindset and the guys who matter out there.

I only watch you, when you're reacting to TFE, sooo. He does Several stories about Brits and they're Very Good! Thank you for your Reaction!

AI will never be better than a human. Nobody understands that computers will NEVER be able to identify a human just by looking at it. There are more characteristics that it has to account for, something human beings can easily manipulate

Broooooo. We are getting wrecked with snow in Washington, cant sleep, great to get a new vid

I listen to his videos on drive to work. I enjoy hearing someone else’s reaction to them. Specifically someone with decent audio of both the video and your dialogue. Plz keep the reaction of the fat electrician coming.

Maybe the AI drone joining a squad on the ground comes with a pre-installed self-destruct safety measure so the guys don't have to worry about leaving it behind.

Right!, I suggested “Mad Jack Churchill. A super talented archer and swordsman from WW2.

Wait!??!!!! You have trained your kids well enough where they can attack and defeat a Royal Marine Commando using nothing but plastic toys? When they become adults, they will be able to open the gates of Hell on anyone that displeases them.

Do you want to know who’s really cool? The ROK’s Black Tigers are really awesome! If you react to the Fat Electrician’s Operation Paul Bunyan, he talks about them.

The large electron guy is perfect content for us military geeks

They may get a rep as brain dead door kickers, but I work with 2 marines and they are smart as hell

Live commentary as I watch. It will seem a little choppy and messy, but i won't edit to keep it real: 1) Boots on the ground with a high-tech piece of equipment? Yeah. I would probably be worried that it would be spotted. But, a drone is so loud. Is this not a better option? Are you saying the concern is your brain has the ENTIRE mission and you also have to think about this piece of tech you aren't allowed to leave behind in any functional state? Ok, I think I get what you're saying here. If I were moving on an urban target; 3 buildings deep, and 1 floor up. Yes, this would be a concern. But, maybe it can be silent? If you can hug a corner, keep the gears quiet (housing?) and still get images that help you? Ok, let's do it. Moving on... 2) Is it really that important to get every single piece of comms? I ask because there are so many elements. I'm impressed by our soldiers that they can keep that priority top of mind aside from all the other stuff the mission demands. Are we asking too much of these soldiers? So, now we come to the hilarious AI training the Marines did. Sommersaults? Sure.... 3) Singleminded AI seems to be falling a bit short. For reference... the human brain is considerably more complex than the entire observable universe.

I'd love to see a reaction to: Pentagon Hall of Heroes: Staff Sgt. David G. Bellavia's Speech The US ARMY

In most of his videos he has a “post-credits” clip, but it doesn’t happen in all of them.

This is the most Marine action possible. Tell a Marine something can't be done and they will prove you wrong.

I know you have said you're not going to do one of his videos for a while, but you absolutely have to review his video on the British mosquito in world war II, and yes there's always a blurb at the end. You just got to be patient

You have to wait until after the credit to see the joke at the end.

"AI is One Track Minded." Marines, I FIXED that.

Video suggestion. Jeremy Clarkson Greatest raid of all. It's about the British Commandos.

Having a wheeled robot out "scouting" in the open isn't very stealthy when you're trying to infiltrate into enemy territory undetected, I'd prefer to have my scouts a little less conspicuous

Your wheeled scout needs to blend in to the point where it can't be seen. otherwise they (the enemy) will know their location is found and would be abandoned.

Don't short yourself on his videos sir. You will not only enjoy his presentation style, but he don't do opinions other than his own unless he makes it very clear when doing so. Otherwise he's spitting facts. At least have a listen to his piece on Lewis Millet, fantastic stuff beyond the brief mentions on historical record. He digs beyond the commonly known.

TACTIC ARE CHANGING THIS ERA OF WARFARE SINCE WW2 AND IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN IS ABOUT TO CHANGE WAR WILL ALWAYS EVOLVE AND WE AS A NATION MUST KEEP UP

Army would have went all HUA and the AI would have cornered them in a Jack In The Box...

Sounds so wrong to hear a grown man begging someone to slip into his BH.. I meant.. DMs

Digging the videos man. Keep up the good work. I meet a few Royal Marines while in Iraq in 2003. Cool dudes for sure. We traded some stuff, I got a green and maroon beret from them.

The Fat Electrician is fantastic. Or make a video on the f15 that came back with one wing.

Wasn't that some closed AI that was basically limited to a few things only? I'm not an expert but I'm pretty sure it was old and nerfed.

The United States Marine Corps is notorious for having the cast off equipment of the Army and outperforming them every time. They have developed a mission philosophy of, "Adapt, Improvise and Overcome."

I hope Nick see's this and contacts you.

I think that until AI very clearly exceeds human intelligence in every aspect, then it is a hindrance to a soldier's own senses and instincts. And as for not knowing what they're doing before they do it, never forget the old joke: The Soviets: "One of the serious problems in planning against American doctrine is that the Americans do not read their manuals nor do they feel any obligation to follow their doctrine." The Nazis: "The reason that the American army does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos and the American army practices chaos on a daily basis." America: "If we don't know what we are doing, the enemy certainly can't anticipate our future actions!"

Dammit now we can't do somersaulting in cardboard box attacks on AIs

fuckin hell mate, u sound crisp as ever xD whens the next stream? cant wait to play some more doorkickers with ya!

Highly recommend FE's video about USMC Sgt. Major Dan Daly, the most bad-ass Marine in history, as well as his video about the Ontos tank.

1. Keep doing TFE videos. Three is not enough. 2. He has a podcast. Get on it :-)

I cant wait until he watches the Cheese Bunker video for TFE

Just what you need, one more thing to have to keep track of, to worry about, to carry batteries for, to get through difficult terrain. I'm willing to bet this ideas was dreamed up by someone who's never carried a rifle.

@originalhuman Please react to “ A Marine general led a fictional Iran against US military - and won” it is absolutely amazingly ridiculous

UMaine, nice you weren't far from me, I live in NH

His name is Nick

Nic does awesome stuff, he did a great video on the Gurkhas

AI shall remain King until Birnam Wood comes to Dunsinane... OOPS !!