Footage of the first ever simulated battle of the X-62A robotic fighter with a manned aircraft is shown

The Pentagon's research agency DARPA reported that the X-62A fighter piloted by artificial intelligence is successfully conducting simulated dogfights with pilot-controlled aircraft. The relevant footage was shown on April 17.

The X-62A fighter, originally designated NF-16D, is a heavily modified two-seat F-16D. It is said to be able to simulate the control systems of virtually any aircraft, making the X-62A a platform suitable for numerous aerial tests.

For the first time in stories ACE AI algorithms autonomously piloting an X-62A battled a human-piloted F-16 in a dogfight within visual range

- DARPA noted.

Development of the AI ​​used in the X-62A began in 2022, and autonomous flight tests using the algorithms were conducted as early as December of that year. As the developer explains, during this testing, changes were made daily to more than 100 thousand lines of machine code.

During 2023, the robotic aircraft was tested for maneuverability at Edwards Air Force Base in California. In September 2023, the aircraft was already involved in dogfights against a manned F-16, starting with defensive maneuvers before moving to offensive tactics and high-speed head-on engagements.

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[Peter1First]

So now Ukraine will no longer need to train its pilots?

[bone1]

Well, who won what they didn’t say?

[blackGRAIL]

AI. AI has long been beating (outright) humans on flight simulators in 1 on 1 battles.

[belost79]

Artificial intelligence is still more artificial than intelligence.

[Anatole Klim]

Quote: belost79

Artificial intelligence is still more artificial than intelligence.

However, back in the mid-90s, world chess champion Kasparov lost to a computer for the first time. There may come a time when pilots begin to lose out to AI at the controls of a fighter jet. Eh, the “rebellion of the machines” if only it didn’t happen

[Starover_Z]

Maybe then it’s time to start preparing swarms of UAVs for battles with AI-controlled fighters?

[Aerodrome]

Quote: Starover_Z

Maybe then it’s time to start preparing swarms of UAVs for battles with AI-controlled fighters?

FPV there are no “swarms” yet, not enough... there are more on the other side.

[novel66]

Speed ​​and altitude - this is unattainable for a UAV

[Ivan Ivanov]

This is where AI has normal prospects - being tailored to a highly specialized task gives it an advantage.

[Yves762]

And the factor is that it was stupid for a living pilot to engage in a “dog fight” with an “Artificial Idiot”, who the devil knows where he will turn.?.

[Thrifty]

Well, yes, taking into account the fact that this semi-smart plane receives information through closed channels from the World Wide Web, the skillful actions of hackers are enough for the plane to become just a toy in capable hands!

[guest]

Quote: Thrifty

The skillful actions of hackers are enough for the plane to become just a toy in capable hands!

I hope we have such hackers.

[Cartalon]

The half-plane will receive target designation from the same half-time flying radar, fire missiles and go to the base, and the hacker will continue to drink coffee and smoke bamboo.

[dragon772]

In 2005, a 2005 science fiction action film directed by Rob Cohen was released.
In which pilots train UAVs in combat operations. The UAV gets out of control when lightning strikes it, and begins to rebuild its algorithms, making decisions on its own.
The future is near.

[Puz Big]

The danger of such machines is that they are not restrained by the ability of a living pilot to endure fairly weak overloads. A microcircuit in the appropriate packaging will withstand 500 G or more, there is no need for a cockpit and controls. Yes, current airframes are not ready for such overloads, but they were designed with an eye on human capabilities; if these restrictions are removed, then who knows where the maximum achievable parameters of new designs will be. In a maneuverable battle, such a machine will in any case outplay a human, at least due to wider capabilities that are inaccessible to humans.

[opuonmed]

Essentially, the pilot has restrictions on overloads, etc., etc., but the robot does not. But most importantly, a person must have the key to turn off the AI ​​and the robot!

[bone1]

What's the difference in overloads if the unmanned is a regular F-16?

[Puz Big]

Even though this unmanned F16 has an ordinary glider, even so it is capable of long-term maneuvers with overloads, from which an ordinary pilot will quickly lose consciousness (or even completely move his horse).

[bone1]

Are you serious? - funny - that’s how airplanes are designed - to kill the pilot

[Puz Big]

Have you heard about anti-g suits for pilots? Why do you think they were invented?

[blackGRAIL]

A US military AI (virtually) destroyed a human operator during a simulated test to counter a missile attack. The system interpreted the rules according to which the target should be destroyed in its own way, writes The Guardian, citing the head of the US Air Force AI department, Tucker Hamilton.

The point of testing the AI ​​was that it received points every time it successfully hit a target. But when the operator too often asked the system-controlled player to wait and not attack, he decided that the person was preventing him from earning points. Therefore, during the simulation, the artificial intelligence decided to simply destroy the operator and continue its work. When the AI ​​was trained not to kill the operator, the system began to destroy the tower that provided communication with it:

“The AI ​​killed the operator because it prevented him from achieving his goal. We trained the system - “Hey, don’t kill the operator - it’s bad, we’ll take off points for it.” What does AI do? “He destroyed the control tower from which the operator’s commands were coming “do not destroy the target,” The Guardian quotes Hamilton’s report as saying.

[opuonmed]

Take an operator who controls from a distance. What is their delay in milliseconds through the mask satellites?

[Trapp1st]

Footage of the first ever simulated battle of the X-62A robotic fighter is shown

Now old KCA will catch up and start talking some nonsense about a pen, an ax and torrents...

[Dilettante grandfather]

1. Successfully conducting a battle does not mean that the aircraft under AI control has won. He fought the battle successfully. The end result is not indicated in the article.
2. I don’t argue that the day may come when AI will be able to “think” better than a human and win in battle. After all, an AI-controlled aircraft doesn't have many limitations when it comes to piloting. But so far, human intelligence is superior to artificial intelligence.
3. I don’t think that in the near future anyone will be able to create an AI that is superior in intelligence to humans.
I may be wrong in the third point, but this is our strength: a person is able to admit a mistake and try to correct it. AI is not yet capable of this.

[novel66]

The book and movie was “The Inquiry of Pilot Pirx.” It says it all

[Dilettante grandfather]

Movie - yes, I watched it. During Soviet times. I haven't read the book.

[blackGRAIL]

AI has a long history of beating the best pilots in flight simulators. In a dogfight, AI's speed and endurance outright defeat human intelligence. There is simply no time left to use it and come up with cunning combinations.

[Dilettante grandfather]

A flight simulator is not an airplane. Working conditions in a flight simulator do not imply the actual death of the pilot. Consequently, no pilot will act in such a way that his eyes darken, or beyond the threshold of patience. And further. About the “best pilots” - can you be more specific? Names, surnames, service record: at a minimum, where, when, against whom they carried out combat operations, and how many they shot down. How many of their equal opponents, on equivalent aircraft, and not from Iraqi pilots, on MiG-21s.
So, I'm waiting. It will be very interesting to find out all this.

[blackGRAIL]

No one will tell you your full name, don’t be a fool. There are 8 known aerobatic teams participating in the program, including Lockheed Martin and the US Air Force itself). There is enough information on the Internet - type in “AI (again) defeated the human pilot.” Mainly in the USA, but also in China.

The AI, developed by the American company Heron Systems, won a series of five fights in close aerial combat during the AlphaDogfight Trial competition. His opponent was a living person - an experienced US Air Force instructor. The tests were carried out on the FlightGear simulator, simulating the F-16 Fighting Falcon. Result 5-0 in favor of AI
You can watch the competition on the DARPA YouTube channel.

Two aircraft took part in the air battle. One was controlled by artificial intelligence. It was based on the Nvidia Jetson TX2 accelerator. The second drone was remotely controlled by an experienced pilot. According to the document, the machine with artificial intelligence showed “superior performance” in close-range combat. Also, the AI ​​drone kept the enemy at a constant disadvantage. According to the study, the autonomous aircraft quickly dodged the controlled aircraft and landed on the enemy’s tail. All attempts by man to get rid of persecution were unsuccessful. The experiment had to be completed 90 seconds after it began. The project was led by Huang Juntao, a professor from the People's Liberation Army Research Institute of China.

[Dilettante grandfather]

No one will tell you your full name, don’t be a fool. There are 8 known aerobatic teams participating in the program, including Lockheed Martin and the US Air Force itself). There is enough information on the Internet - type in “AI (again) defeated the human pilot.”

You claim something - be so kind as to prove it. And copying texts from the Internet is like copying phrases from a fence and passing them off as truth.
Again. Track record of "best pilots". How many did they shoot down in real battles that were equal in strength to them, and on combat aircraft comparable in performance characteristics? No information? Then there is no need to advertise our enemy’s pilots as “the best”, based only on notes from the enemy’s Internet resources.

[blackGRAIL]

The planes are always the same, you might have guessed it. All close fights for AI - I showed you an example of a 5-0 score from the AlphaDogfight Trial competition. Can you give your full name based on at least one test of our weapons and post the result? So again - don't turn on the fool.

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when there is no need to advertise our enemy's pilots as "the best"

- You ***??? Any state has its best pilots, tank crews, etc.

https://www.google.com/search?q=%D0%B8%D0%B8+%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BB+%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B0+%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%B0&oq=%D0%B8%D0%B8+%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BB+%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B0+%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%B0&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIKCAEQABiABBiiBNIBCDk0NjVqMGoxqAIAsAIB&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

[Dilettante grandfather]

Any state has its best pilots, tank crews, etc.

Here is your sentence above:

AI has been beating the best pilots in flight simulators for a long time

It doesn't say a word that these are the best American pilots. Simply - the best.
The best are now destroying the enemy at the LBS in the Northern Military District. Gaining combat experience.
The American pilots actually faced an equal opponent. In Korea and Vietnam. Read how much they lost and how much we lost. The ratio, according to the mildest estimates, was 1 of our planes per 3-5 American ones. So no need to talk about “the best American pilots”. They are best when there is no opposition. The same can be said about their planes. The MiG-15s were superior to their F-86s. Now our planes are at least not inferior to their F-35s. Generation 4+ versus a machine declared 5th generation, on equal terms. In general, think before declaring the best pilots from the USA.