Student pilots of the US Air Force take part in a virtual reality flight simulation in January 2018 at Columbus Air Force Base in Mississippi. Photo: US Air Force
SCMP: In the dogfights of the future, are these the new top guns?
* A newcomer to combat took on one of the US’ best fighter jet pilots in a series of simulated aerial battles
* The result was a win for the contender but not a victory for the approach, analysts say
When the final dogfight was over, there was no argument who won.
The competition pitted a newcomer against one of the US Air Force’s top pilots in a simulated battle for air superiority in the AlphaDogfight Trials in the United States earlier this month.
After making it through the three rounds of qualifiers, the contender took on and convincingly rounded the veteran.
But there was no slap on the back for the victor – the winner was an artificial intelligence algorithm.
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WNU Editor: Short answer is yes. But it will be far in the future.
That's a very simplistic unintelligible answer, WNU, for what is a subject that requires deep study that even on the surface level, one can see that an AI system is only as good as the person feeding it; considering the more serious analytic articles that have popped up about this subject, many contend that the test didn't very little to prove anything other than to act as a showcase for the technology, which this article even alludes too.
ReplyDeleteNot sure if you actually read it.
Well, it very hard to tell. AI will always be a good help. That said, as long as the AI is not updated of the latest of the technological performance the AI is not as good as we think. The experiment with jet fighter the AI is fully updated make it perfect, so what with fighter AI doesn't know ?
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