Now here's an interesting project: Designing the code for a real F-16 fighter aircraft dog fight.
As reported in "Breaking Defense", DARPA -- the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency -- "In a ‘world first,’ DARPA project demonstrates AI dogfighting in real jet"
In late 2023 at Edwards AFB in California we learn: "In the span of a couple weeks, a series of trials witnessed a manned F-16 face off against a bespoke Fighting Falcon known as the Variable In-flight Simulator Aircraft, or VISTA. A human pilot sat in the VISTA’s cockpit for safety reasons, but an AI agent did the flying, with results officials described as impressive — though they declined to provide specific detail, like the win/loss ratio of the AI pilot, due to “national security” reasons."
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