We Might Witness the First “AI vs Human: Airplane Fight” Next Year

Jun. 13, 2020

As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to develop, many countries, includingIndia, are now using the tech in military operations. However, no country can top the US in implementing AI in its military and air force units. We saw the country useAI to aid soldierson the battlefield. Officials eveninvited game developers to create an AI algorithmfor their fighter jets. Now, the country is prepping for an AI versus human dogfight.

Now,these researchers from AFRL are reportedly working on an autonomous drone that uses AI and can take down a piloted fighter jetin a classic “dogfight”. Now, we do not have much info on the subject, as it is a military project, after all.

However, in a recent 56-minutevideo, the head of Pentagon’s Artificial Intelligence Center, Lieutenant General Jack Shanahan said that the“[Team leader Steve Rogers] is probably going to have a hard time getting to that flight next year … when the machine beats the human,”.

Research team lead, Steve Rogers stated that the AI, that will control the autonomous aircraft, could have millions of hours of training, while the“really good”human pilots only“have a couple thousand hours of experience,”.

Anyhow, the final point that I wanna make of this is that AI is developing at a faster rate than any of us could imagine. We have seen the technology control avacuum cleanerto afull-size ship. Now, AI will control a jet and fight with a human. Let’s just hope, after defeating the human pilot, the AI does not decide to wipe out the human race (just saying)!

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