Drone v piloted fighter
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JPJPJP said:
That is GCAS which isn't so much AI, like the drone will be using to make up stuff when it fights a human in the test, it's a great but simple bit piece of software where it is given the aircraft's position in 3D space, compares than to the terrain and obstacle height map in it's computer and if it goes outside of pre-programmed safety limits (how much G can I pull, what is my roll rate etc) it activates, following another simple program - roll wings level, pull back upto the maximum G allowed in the program.The GCAS software is something we have to continually reprogram into our aircraft, usually about once a month because, whilst the terrain may not change, man-made objects like pylons, semi-permanent cranes, skyscrapers, wind farms, aerials etc get added all the time. It's a fun bit of software to play with.
The difference to AI is that AI will be given a set of "do not break" limits but what it does inside those limits isn't programmed, it just decides itself how to complete a task you give it i.e. "Shoot down that plane" doesn't start a program for it to follow, it does what ever it needs to do inside it's pre-defined limits to achieve its goal - truly scary stuff!
Edited by IanH755 on Sunday 7th June 23:28
IanH755 said:
That is GCAS which isn't so much AI, like the drone will be using to make up stuff when it fights a human in the test, it's a great but simple bit piece of software where it is given the aircraft's position in 3D space, compares than to the terrain and obstacle height map in it's computer and if it goes outside of pre-programmed safety limits (how much G can I pull, what is my roll rate etc) it activates, following another simple program - roll wings level, pull back upto the maximum G allowed in the program.
The GCAS software is something we have to continually reprogram into our aircraft, usually about once a month because, whilst the terrain may not change, man-made objects like pylons, semi-permanent cranes, skyscrapers, wind farms, aerials etc get added all the time. It's a fun bit of software to play with.
That's really interesting how much detail GCAS (or rather you!) go into with it, I thought it was basically a topological map, perhaps with radalt guesswork added in.The GCAS software is something we have to continually reprogram into our aircraft, usually about once a month because, whilst the terrain may not change, man-made objects like pylons, semi-permanent cranes, skyscrapers, wind farms, aerials etc get added all the time. It's a fun bit of software to play with.
IanH755 said:
The difference to AI is that AI will be given a set of "do not break" limits but what it does inside those limits isn't programmed, it just decides itself how to complete a task you give it i.e. "Shoot down that plane" doesn't start a program for it to follow, it does what ever it needs to do inside it's pre-defined limits to achieve its goal - truly scary stuff!
I can imagine once they've got it working you set up a bounding box and let two of them have at it autonomously under endless iterations until they're unbeatable. Machine learning is getting frighteningly good these days.
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