AI pilot shoots down F16 Top Gun to win first ever USAF dogfight simulator competition

[crimsonaudio]

Robot pilots are also able to 'think' creatively and quickly, with trials in April showing at least one AI-driven fighter jet flipping upside down before taking a shot at its opponent in a move many human pilots couldn't do.

The Air Force hopes that a fighter drone piloted by AI would be able to react faster to opponents, as well as conduct harder, faster maneuvers that would be impossible with a human on board, as they would overwhelm the body.

AI pilot shoots down F16 Top Gun to win first ever USAF dogfight simulator competition

 

[gman4tide]

It's all fun and games until they start thinking for themselves and taking over...

 

[Tidewater]

AI pilot shoots down F16 Top Gun to win first ever USAF dogfight simulator competition

A Chief of Staff of the Air Force (CSAF) said a few years back that the last fighter pilot has already been born.

Then again, once the inevitable financial collapse happens and nobody can afford AI and drones, we might be fighting with P-51 Mustangs again because that is all we can afford.
Or Sopwith Camels.

 

[Padreruf]

A Chief of Staff of the Air Force (CSAF) said a few years back that the last fighter pilot has already been born.

Then again, once the inevitable financial collapse happens and nobody can afford AI and drones, we might be fighting with P-51 Mustangs again because that is all we can afford.
Or Sopwith Camels.

I wish...their kill rate is a lot smaller I would imagine...

 

[Padreruf]

Reminded me of the quote attributed to Uncle Albert...
Albert Einstein -- "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."

 

[Tidewater]

A Chief of Staff of the Air Force (CSAF) said a few years back that the last fighter pilot has already been born.

Then again, once the inevitable financial collapse happens and nobody can afford AI and drones, we might be fighting with P-51 Mustangs again because that is all we can afford.
Or Sopwith Camels.

Or kites with "frigging lasers" (to borrow a phrase from Dr. Evil) because that is all we can afford.

 

[Elefantman]

So is "HAL" the call sign of the AI pilot???

 

[crimsonaudio]

Ai is the future of warfare, but keep in mind (buried at the end of the article):

However, the technology is not without its limitations.

'The [AI] agents that were well-developed at this point—they were able to handle very well the adversaries that were somewhat predictable or operating the way they had trained against,' Air Force lieutenant colonel Justin Mock said in an April video.

'But they struggled with those adversaries that did something even just a little different.'

IOW, they react quicker to programmed input, but they're not learning and solving problem in real time - yet.

 

[mdb-tpet]

I remember back in 1996 there was a poster of an proposed AI simulated dog fight on the walls of Hardaway Hall at Alabama. Seems this has come to fruition.

 

[TraskiTideFan]

And just like that, Skynet comes online in 2020.

 

[Tidewater]

Ai is the future of warfare, but keep in mind (buried at the end of the article):

IOW, they react quicker to programmed input, but they're not learning and solving problem in real time - yet.

The AI planes would have been completely flummoxed by the Iraqi air force burying their airplanes in the sand.

 

[seebell]

AI planes are the wave of the future. Pilots are very expensive to train and keep. Humans are limited by G forces as well.

 

[TexasBama]

Operating at the limit of the airframe vs. the limit of the pilot

 

[Tidewater]

Operating at the limit of the airframe vs. the limit of the pilot

What's the difference between a pilot and a jet engine?
The jet engine stops whining once it gets on the ground.