Wednesday, December 16, 2020

U.S. Air Force Uses Artificial Intelligence Aboard A Military Jet For The Very First Time

A U-2 Dragon Lady assigned to the 9th Reconnaissance Wing prepares to land at Beale Air Force, Calif., Dec. 15, 2020 after artificial intelligence executed specific in-flight tasks during the flight that would otherwise be done by the pilot. (U.S. Air Force/Airman 1st Class Luis A. Ruiz-Vazquez) 


 * The historic moment occurred at Beale Air Force Base in California, on Tuesday 
 * An AI system, named ARTUµ, took control of a U-2 Lady Dragon's radar sensors and tactical navigation systems during the two-and-half-hour sortie 
 * No weapons were featured and the plane was still being steered by the pilot 
 * ARTUµ searched for enemy missiles while the pilot hunted for adversary aircraft 
 * The AI and human worked in tandem while both sharing the U-2's radar 
 * Officials celebrated the feat as a watershed moment for AI in military aircraft 
 * ARTUµ is named after R2D2, the co-piloting droid from the Star Wars franchise 

The US Air Force has used artificial intelligence (AI) aboard a military aircraft for the first time during a training flight in California on Tuesday. 

The historic moment, which occurred at Beale Air Force Base, saw an artificial-intelligence algorithm take control of the radar sensors and tactical navigation systems of a U-2 Dragon Lady spy plane. 

USAF said the AI system - named ARTUµ in tribute to the Star Wars droid R2D2 - was deliberately designed without a manual pilot override to ‘provoke thought and learning in the test environment.’

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