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The US Air Force successfully tested AI-controlled jet fighter

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Re: The US Air Force successfully tested AI-controlled jet fighter

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Post by jakear »

N_A_T_E wrote: post #3

I assume this "AI" is nothing like the neural networks that have made such great strides recently. A lot of pre-programmed boolean logic.

I'm not so sure. Control theory has been using tensors to flow sensor signals into actuator signals since before tensorflow existed.

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Post by wing-_-nuts »

The military always claims they will have a human 'in the loop' to make kill decisions. That promise will go out the window just as soon as other nations arm ai enabled drones with anti air missiles. There's no time for 'human in the loop' when the first to act survives.

Thus down the slippery slope we go. In 20 years time we'll probably have aircraft that do figure eights over enemy territory for hours before automatically engaging 'military aged males'.

Slaughter bots is the ultimate conclusion to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-2tpwW0kmU

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Post by daveslash »

bigtex wrote: post #2

FYI Hollywood made a movie about this very subject, Stealth from 2005. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0382992/ The plane goes rogue but humans ingenuity saves the day.

I know it's a stretch, but that was also the premise of Star Trek TOS's 1968 (S02E24) episode "The Ultimate Computer" - M-5 goes rogue and our swashbuckling crew of the Enterprise saves the day. Also.... I saw Stealth in theaters and have not thought about it again until just now. Edit: Oh, and back in 2005 I was big into the band Incubus, and I really dug their song "Make a Move" on that soundtrack.
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