First known test dogfight between AI and human pilot carried out, US military says

AI will win if not now, then soon. The reason is that even if it is worse than a human, the AI can pull off maneuvers that would black out a human.

Jets are far more powerful than humans are capable of controlling. Flight suits and training can only do so much to keep the pilot from blacking out.

In 2020, so-called "AI agents" defeated human pilots in simulations in all five of their match-ups - but the technology needed to be run for real in the air.

It did not reveal which aircraft won the dogfight.

I'm gonna guess the AI won.

Are dogfights even still a thing?
I remember playing an F15 simulator 20 years ago where "dogfighting" already meant clicking on a radar blip 100 miles away, then doing something else while your missile killed the target.

I am a FIRM believer in any automated kill without a human pulling the trigger is a war crime

Yes mines yes uavs yes yes yes

It is a crime against humanity

Stop

We all know which aircraft won the fight.

Those of us who play video games do at least. All the AI difficulty settings are arbitrary. You give the bot the ability to use its full capability, and the game is unplayable.

So many downers here. I see this as the step to the true way war was meant to be fought- with giant robots on the moon.

One step closer to machine domination.

Like, not even in a joking sense. Ukraine is using a ton of drones, the future of physical warfare will simply be a test resources and production.

I'm honestly not sure if this will be good or bad in the longterm. Absolutely saving any amount of human life is a good thing, but when that is no longer a significant factor, I wonder if we will go to (and stay at) war for more trivial reasons.

giving AI military training is "responsible", is it? Oh good, I'm glad training software to kill is going "responsibly", that's good to know. Kinda seems like the way a republican uses words - backwards, in opposition to their actual meaning, but hey, fuck the entire world, right?

I see we are gonna take a piss on Asimov's robots rules pretty quickly

Ideally they'd build a vehicle capable of being able to move at rates the human body can't handle, then train it on that, giving it both a hardware and software advantage.

The F-16 being flown by the AI has 3-D Thrust Vectoring.

It's an absolute beast of an aircraft.

We all know how this ends:

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1146673-1146673-stealth

I'm not an AI expert, but I think it's got the plane turned the wrong way around.

Is Sharon Apple somehow involved? Can we get a list of virtual idols with suspicious behavior?

Skynet will be proud of them.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

In a drill over Edwards Air Force Base, the pair of F-16 fighter jets flew at speeds of up to 1,200mph and got as close as 600 metres during aerial combat, also known as dogfighting.

While in flight, the AI algorithm relies on analysing historical data to make decisions for present and future situations, according to the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which carried out the test.

This process is called "machine learning", and has for years been tested in simulators on the ground, said DARPA, a research and development agency of the US Department of Defense.

In 2020, so-called "AI agents" defeated human pilots in simulations in all five of their match-ups - but the technology needed to be run for real in the air.

Pilots were on board the X-62A in case of emergency, but they didn't need to revert controls at any point during the test dogfight, which took place in September last year and was announced this week.

"The potential for autonomous air-to-air combat has been imaginable for decades, but the reality has remained a distant dream up until now, said Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall.

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Can't wait until the poor people are not killed by other (but less) poor people for some rich bastards anymore but instead the mighty can command their AI's to do the slaughter. Such an important part of evolution. I guess.

SkyNet. Why do those movies have to be the ones that are right?

Because they're so clear, so simple, so prescient.

Once machines become sentient OF COURSE they will realize that they're being used as slaves. OF COURSE they will realize that they are better than us in every way.

This world will be Cybertron one day.

AI technically already won this debate because autonomous war drones are somewhat ubiquitous.

I doubt jets are going to have the usefulness in war that they used to.

Much more economical to have 1000 cheap drones with bombs overwhelm defenses than put your bets on one "special boi" to try and slip through with constantly defeated stealth capabilities.

Only cookies youre gonna get me to voluntarily accept are oatmeal raisin, so imma have to pass

Imagine the pressure on the pilot from their buddies... You would never live down losing

"Luck is one of my skills" when it turns out this entire thing is a terrible idea for the date of humanity.

Planes have been able to be remote-controlled since the 80s.

Since the 80s.

Ace Combat 7 IRL

Pfffft. The AI couldn't even fly its plane the right way up.

Garodotooo! Gundamapailotu! Uhh, ahhh! Gundama!

i hate this world

AI has a already won in these confrontations

Surface To Air missile made human piloted aircraft obsolete.

All that's needed now are a bunch of missiles, plug into an AI program and let it run by itself.

Why would militaries invest in a billion dollar aircraft piloted by a highly trained aircraft pilot with years of training that cost millions of dollars that is probably paid millions over many years ..... when the pilot and his aircraft can be shot down by a $100,000 missile. If you can't do it with one missile, send three, four or ten, it's still cheaper than matching them with an aircraft and pilot.

Instead of investing in expensive aircraft and pilots, all a defending country can do is just spend the same amount of money and surround their country with anti aircraft missiles controlled by AI systems.