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Consider it artificial military intelligence. The Department of Defense wants future generations of fighter aircraft to come with copilots already installed. According to the U.S. Naval Institute, both the Navy and the Air Force want their next generation air superiority fighter to have Artificial Intelligence. http://news.usni.org/2014/08/28/navys-next-fighter-likely-feature-artificial-intelligence
The F-X is a fighter concept in development to replace the Air Force’s current top dog, the stealthy F-22 Raptor, which is designed to outfight any other plane in the sky. However, the Raptor is expensive to produce, and it also suffered in some test dogfighting scenarios. Adding AI could free the pilot's mind to focus more on fewer tasks, giving them a cognitive advantage in battle.
Boeing’s Phantom Works are developing the F/A-XX Advanced Navy Strike Fighter to replace their own F/A-18 Super Hornet (or, more accurately, to replace the F-35C, which will replace the F/A-18 Super Hornet). It’s based on aircraft carriers, which are notoriously challenging to land on. The Navy’s own X-47B experimental drone has landed on an aircraft carrier successfully and autonomously, so adding a computer co-pilot to a naval craft could help there too.
http://www.popsci.com/article/technology/pentagon-wants-artificial-intelligence-future-fighters
(Score: 2) by kaganar on Thursday September 04 2014, @12:34AM
There was interest in using brainwave controls in fighter jets decades ago, but it couldn't be explained how people could control their brainwaves exactly -- only that they could. As a result the project was scrapped.
Advanced AI seems to fall into this category. The things that we can explain conclusively aren't really AI. (e.g. "expert" systems) The things we can't explain very well are some of the best AI we've got for "hard" problems. (e.g. deep nets)
(Score: 2) by JeanCroix on Thursday September 04 2014, @12:40PM