AI Fighter Pilot Wins in Combat Simulation
June 28th, 2016Via: BBC:
An artificially intelligent fighter pilot system has defeated two attacking jets in a combat simulation.
The AI, known as Alpha, used four virtual jets to successfully defend a coastline against two attacking aircraft – and did not suffer any losses.
Alpha, which was developed by a US team, also triumphed in simulation against a retired human fighter pilot.
One military aviation expert said the results were promising.
In the simulation described in the study, both attacking jets – the blue team – had more capable weapons systems.
But Alpha’s red team was able to dispatch the enemy planes after performing evasive manoeuvres.
In other words, no meatsacks = pulling higher G’s.