Where da thread about AI? Anyway...

[Panzerlang]

I wonder if they'd sell the software? 😁
 

"The US air force made history by organizing the first dogfight between a human pilot and an AI-controlled fighter jet. This happened at Edwards Air Force Base in California in September last year. The computer-operated F-16 faced off against a manned F-16 aircraft in aerial combat.

The two jets, reaching speeds of 1,200 miles per hour, practiced defensive and offensive maneuvers, including close-range combat called dogfighting. They even got as close as 2,000 feet (610 meters) to each other during the exercise.

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) released video of the close-range air combat between the two jets. The footage shows the jets maneuvering around each other as they fly through the sky.

The autonomous aircraft, named the X-62A Variable Stability In-flight Simulator Test Aircraft (VISTA), is a modified F-16 equipped with an AI program. Since its construction in December 2022, the jet has been on over 21 test flights, accumulating more than 17 hours of flight time. This marks the first instance of using machine learning to control a fighter jet.

While flying, the AI algorithm on the jet examines data and makes instant decisions, a method known as machine learning. This mimics how fighter pilots develop their instincts through years of practice.

Carrying out a dogfight between an AI-powered jet and a human marks a “transformational moment in aerospace history”, DARPA said in a statement."

[R33GZ]

One step closer to skynet... we're all doomed 😁

[=MERCS=JenkemJunkie]

Did they post the footage? If the AI was "flying" a fly by wire jet and never got closer than 610m, then that doesn't get my hopes up that they were doing anything fancy.

[jollyjack]

Maybe they could learn from the IL2's programmers, as we already have it ...

 

PS programming any Ai IL2 plane must be quite more difficult than that for this Ai apparatus:

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/aniais-ai-powered-hamburger-cooking-robots-expand-into-north-america-301973470.html