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June 8, 2020 01:34 am

Could an AI-Powered Drone Defeat a Human Pilot?

America's Air Force "is hoping to pit an autonomous drone equipped with an artificial intelligence-driven flight control system against a fighter jet with a human pilot in a little over a year," reports The Drive:[T]he general concept of a fully-autonomous unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV) capable of air-to-air combat, as well as air-to-ground strikes, hold great potential to fundamentally change the character of aerial warfare... At its most basic, a UCAV would be able to perform many of the same functions as manned aircraft, but would be able to make key decisions faster and more accurately, taking into account much more information in a shorter period of time, without any concern about being distracted or confused by the general chaos of combat. They can also be networked into swarms that work cooperatively to maximize their combat effectiveness at any given time far beyond what a human-piloted formation could. The head of Air Force's Joint Artificial Intelligence Center "implied that the scheduled faceoff was very much an aspirational goal," according to the article, "and that it wasn't clear if it would happen as planned." They also remember when Elon Musk responded to a tweet suggesting there should be a competitor to the Air Force's F-35 program. "The competitor should be a drone fighter plane that's remote controlled by a human," Musk wrote, "but with its maneuvers augmented by autonomy. The F-35 would have no chance against it."

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