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This Jet Will Turn AI Into a Real-World Top Gun One day, AI could dogfight in the skies, but first it needs to get inside a real cockpit and learn the basics. BY: Eric Tegler
Artificial intelligence has arrived on the battlefield. Powerful algorithms are decoding vast amounts of data, looking for patterns and anomalies in nuclear weapons activity, and running on vehicles like the Army's upcoming Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle and the Air Force's Skyborg drone program.
And after a long wait, AI is also entering the cockpit.
In August 2020, DARPA's AlphaDogfight trials—a series of AI experiments inside a simulated fighter jet cockpit—pitted an Air Force F-16 pilot against an AI pilot in a virtual dogfight. In a blow to fighter pilot egos everywhere, man lost to machine...five times in a row.
But it wasn't a real battle. Nobody knows that better than USAF Colonel Dan "Animal" Javorsek, the manager for DARPA's Air Combat Evaluation (ACE) program.
"We envision a future in which AI handles the split-second maneuvering during within-visual-range dogfights, keeping pilots safer and more effective," Javorsek said at the outset of the ACE program.
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