14-02-2023 17:40 via news.slashdot.org

AI Has Successfully Piloted a US F-16 Fighter Jet, DARPA Says

The US Department of Defense's research agency, DARPA, has announced that its AI algorithms can now control an actual F-16 in flight. The fighter aircraft that was first introduced in 1978 has now seemingly evolved into an autonomous plane. From a report: "In early December 2022, ACE algorithm developers uploaded their AI software into a specially modified F-16 test aircraft known as the X-62A or VISTA (Variable In-flight Simulator Test Aircraft), at the Air Force Test Pilot School (TPS) at Edwa
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