Posted on 02/14/2023 6:22:36 PM PST by Chode
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) just announced that their AI pilot program ACE has moved out of computer-simulated dog fights to flying real F-16s.
The flights occurred at Edwards Air Force Base in California, and a safety pilot was on board the plane to take control if anything went wrong, but nothing did.
Air Force Lt. Col. Ryan "Hal" Hefron, the DARPA program manager for ACE said,
"We conducted multiple sorties [takeoffs and landings] with numerous test points performed on each sortie to test the algorithms under varying starting conditions, against various simulated adversaries, and with simulated weapons capabilities. We didn't run into any major issues but did encounter some differences compared to simulation-based results, which is to be expected when transitioning from virtual to live."
In 2020, the ACE AI defeated experienced human Air Force pilots in simulated dogfights — every time.
Which is very different from the other DARPA AI test where marines easily defeated the bot by wearing cardboard boxes:
Marines wearing cardboard boxes easily defeat Pentagon’s new AI system. According to an excerpt shared from the upcoming book Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by autonomous weapons expert Paul Scharre, the Pentagon brought in eight Marines to test its new AI detection system, and it wasn't even a contest. NOTTHEBEE.COM https://notthebee.com/article/marines-wearing-cardboard-boxes-easily-defeat-pentagons-new-ai-system Stacie Pettyjohn, the director of the Defense Program at the Center for a New American Security, told The New Yorker,
"The ACE program is part of a wider effort to ‘decompose our forces' into smaller, less expensive units. In other words, fewer humans and more expendable machines. DARPA calls this ‘mosaic warfare.' In the case of aerial combat, Pettyjohn said, ‘these much smaller autonomous aircraft can be combined in unexpected ways to overwhelm adversaries with the complexity of it. If any one of them gets shot down, it's not as big of a deal.'"
In addition to swarms of AI powered aircraft, DARPA imagines collegial cooperation between soldiers and AI on the battlefield. According to their AI NEXT campaign, DARPA envisions
"a future in which machines are more than just tools that execute human-programmed rules or generalize from human-curated data sets. Rather, the machines DARPA envisions will function more as colleagues than as tools."
The take away here is that there are two different ways these folks are imagining turning AI into killing machines:
I’ve seen all these movies,they don’t end well for humans.🤨
Yep. It’s called “Autopilot”. Just good enough to really get you into trouble.
The Flyer Killer (FK) is a flying class of Terminator as it is an airborne Non-Humanoid Hunter Killer built by Skynet.[1] It is an upgraded version of Hunter-Killer Aerial Weapons Platform Prototype, armed with dual laser with three rockets under each wing and two under the nose.
How good is AI flying F16’s at balloons? That seems to be the latest $5K enemy wearing out $500 Billion in defense hardware.
Artificial neural network pattern recognition programming hooked up to intricate if/then procedural/object-oriented programming may be artificial, but it ain’t intelligence.
“Nearly 100 countries have publicly expressed their views on killer robots since 2013, primarily in talks under the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW), a major disarmament treaty. The last CCW meeting, in September 2020, looked at how human control and decision-making are critical to the acceptability and legality of weapons systems. During the meeting, many countries and groups of countries expressed their strong interest in negotiating a new international treaty. Thirty countries have explicitly called for a ban on fully autonomous weapons.”
https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/10/20/killer-robots-precedent-ban-treaty
Guess what country opposes a ban on autonomous killing machines?
That’s right, the United States.
Evidently you can pilot a dead F-16 too.
“”countries have explicitly called for a ban on fully autonomous weapons””
Reminds me of people trying to ban persons who make fun of the disabled. Yes, whoever does that is scum, but some will never stop being that way. Some are going to try to create fully autonomous weapons.
I remember seeing Hezbollah building rockets and rocket launchers being constructed RIGHT NEXT to the United Nations ‘peacekeepers’ in Lebanon. Since Hezbollah’s goal was to kill Jews, the UN had no issues.
Self flying planes are cool but how long does it take to charge? /s
Skynet is active.
IKR?
copy that...
so much for Space Force...
What could go wrong? Or right? Or left?
you gotta be friggin kiddin me...
https://notthebee.com/article/marines-wearing-cardboard-boxes-easily-defeat-pentagons-new-ai-system
According to an excerpt shared from the upcoming book Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by autonomous weapons expert Paul Scharre, the Pentagon brought in eight Marines to test its new AI detection system, and it wasn’t even a contest.
The AI was trained to identify humans, and the marines were tasked to approach the robot without being detected.
It turned out to not be too hard.
Simple tricks that any normal human would have spotted easily fooled the machines completely.
Some Marines donned cardboard boxes and snuck up on it, which is very reminiscent of the video game series Metal Gear Solid where the hero often dons cardboard boxes to sneak past enemies.
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“Marines wearing cardboard boxes easily defeat Pentagon’s new AI system. “
Wait until some of those woke army types like the bull dyke staff sergeant tackle veterans with nothing to lose.
LOLOL!!!
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