Artificial intelligence in combat flight simulation.

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Today, can Artificial Intelligence be used in any section of the IL-2 simulator?

 

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Artificial intelligence already pilots an F-16 fighter better than a human pilot.

 

 

 

Artificial intelligence already pilots an F-16 fighter better than a human pilot.

AI has defeated an experienced human pilot by 5 to 0 dogfights in an F-16 simulator

The endless saga of machines surpassing humans has a new chapter. An AI algorithm has once again defeated a human fighter pilot in virtual combat. The competition was the finale of the United States military's AlphaDogfight challenge, an effort to "demonstrate the feasibility of developing effective and intelligent autonomous agents capable of defeating adversary aircraft in aerial combat."

Artificial intelligence is capable of beating humans.
Last August, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, selected eight teams ranging from large traditional defense contractors like Lockheed Martin to small groups like Heron Systems to compete in a series of tests in November and January. In the finals on Thursday, Heron Systems emerged victorious against the other seven teams after two days of old-fashioned aerial combat, going one after the other using only nose guns. Heron then faced a human fighter pilot sitting in a simulator and wearing a virtual reality headset, and won five rounds to zero.

The other winner at Thursday's event was deep reinforcement learning, where AI algorithms manage to try a task in a virtual environment over and over again, sometimes very quickly, until they develop something like understanding. Deep reinforcement played a key role in Heron System's agent, as well as Lockheed Martin's, the runner-up.

 

The algorithm has to adapt to reality to be able to fly correctly Matt Tarascio, vice president of artificial intelligence, and Lee Ritholtz, director and chief architect of artificial intelligence, at Lockheed Martin, told Defense One that trying to get an algorithm to perform well in aerial combat is very different from teaching software to simply " fly", or to maintain a certain direction, altitude and speed. The software will start with a complete lack of understanding of even the most basic flight tasks, Ritholtz explained, putting it at a disadvantage against any human, at first. "You don't have to teach a human that they shouldn't crash into the ground... They have basic instincts that the algorithm doesn't have," in terms of training. "That means dying a lot. Hitting the ground, a lot," Ritholtz said.

Tarascio compared it to "putting a baby in a booth."

Overcoming this ignorance requires teaching the algorithm that there is a cost for each error but that these costs are not equal. Reinforcement comes into play when the algorithm, based on simulation after simulation, assigns heavy costs to each maneuver, and then reassigns those burdens as experiences are updated.

When you provide general rules, you limit their performance. They need to learn by trial and error," Ritholtz said. Ultimately, there is no discussion of how quickly an AI can learn, within a defined area of effort, because it can repeat the lesson over and over again, on multiple machines.

A curiosity: this air combat system, its developers explained, does not need much power, and is capable of operating on a chip similar to the NVIDIA Tegra.

It is not the first time that an AI has fought against a human fighter pilot in a contest. A 2016 demonstration showed that an AI agent nicknamed Alpha could beat an experienced human combat flight instructor. But Thursday's DARPA simulation was arguably more significant, pitching a variety of AI agents against each other and then against a human in a highly structured framework.

Elon Musk already anticipated something similar
In the past, influencers such as Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk have indicated that "the era of fighter jets has passed." In a round table at the Air Warfare Symposium in Orlando, Florida, Musk indicated that "drone warfare is the future. It's not that I want that future, it's simply that that is the future."

 

 

Edited March 28, 2024 by 1/JSpan_Guerrero