Posted on 08/21/2020 10:42:03 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19
DARPA’s AlphaDogfight trials have officially come to a close with Heron Systems’ incredible artificial intelligence pilot system defeating not only its industry competitors, but going on to secure 5 straight victories against a highly trained U.S. Air Force F-16 pilot, without the human pilot scoring a single hit.
Eight teams were selected to create artificial intelligence (AI) “agents” that would be capable of simulating a real dogfight between fighters, referred to as within-visual-range air combat maneuvering, more formally. The first two rounds of this competition saw these virtual pilots engage with one another in simulated combat environments in November and again in January. This third round of AI dogfighting included similar competitions, with the four finalist firms squaring off in a round robin. The event then culminated with the hands-down victor, Heron Systems, taking on a real human fighter pilot in another simulated fight
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The comments on this were pretty interesting.
I just think this stuff is cool.
I guess one of the questions I would ask is if you are building an AI based drone fighter would you build it on the chassis of an existing fighter or would it look more like a sleek “Cylon” craft that did not have a cockpit area (or any of the stuff that goes along with it?). Would be like a flying wing?
I’m telling you SKYNET is real and growing stronger by the day....the machines will be taking over soon...
bkmk
Induces another order of magnitude of differential in asynchronous warfare. If can’t win against robots, go where robots aren’t - but their operators care about.
A whole lotta plane volume is pilot occupancy & life support. Remove that, and everything supporting it, result is a much smaller vehicle that can operate at much higher Gs and leverage other human-incompatible optimizations.
One thing I would wonder is what benefit does the AI have since it has a reduced time in the interface over the pilot. The pilot has to use controls, which in turn generates the inputs into the simulation. The AI would essentially be a direct pipeline.
If AI robot soldiers and fighter planes can defeat humans and human operated tanks/planes how will we ever win if they turn on us in a Terminator/Skynet situation? I’m getting a bit nervous about AI.
Aerodynamics and steering could be a lot more radical seeing that a human’s comfort and health were no longer considerations...............
If you’re in a dogfight you’ve already lost the war.
Dogfights are passe.
The time constant for control inputs is normally taken into account in the design of control laws and the frequency at which responses can be generated due to a sensor result is another part of the design.
Obviously software executing at gigaflops and even teraflops have such time constants orders of magnitude smaller then what a human has so near instantaneous responses are a feature of automated systems. That means tracking, acquisition and firing happens far faster then any human can do it.
Translation: Steve Canyon’s days are numbered.
I bet we have no clue how many projects DARPA and Skunk Works have in testing or on the drawing board for production.
The future of warfare will be AI, robotics, and remote engagements. It will require great wealth and technology as well as a solid manufacturing base. The maneuvers that pilotless aircraft are capable of are amazing and are far beyond the ability of even the best manned aircraft. The ability of AI and computers to reduce a “dogfight” down to mathematical calculations is undeniable and insurmountable.
Translation: Steve Canyon’s days are numbered.
Probably a female fighter pilot..
(Captain Stephanie Canyon, USAF)
It’s been true for awhile that they could make fighter jets that exceeded human tolerance in terms of g-force etc. We better do it before someone else does
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