{"id":122306,"date":"2021-05-05T23:22:21","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T06:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/a-human-battled-an-ai-piloted-fighter-jet-in-the-first-man-vs-machine-test-flight"},"modified":"2021-05-05T23:22:21","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T06:22:21","slug":"a-human-battled-an-ai-piloted-fighter-jet-in-the-first-man-vs-machine-test-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/a-human-battled-an-ai-piloted-fighter-jet-in-the-first-man-vs-machine-test-flight","title":{"rendered":"A Human Battled an AI-Piloted Fighter Jet in the First Man vs. Machine Test Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-human-battled-an-ai-piloted-fighter-jet-in-the-first-man-vs-machine-test-flight3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2020 awesome \ud83d\ude03<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Now, in a world\u2019s first, Daniel Robinson, a veteran F-22 pilot, climbed inside a real aircraft and battled an AI virtual fighter.<\/p>\n<p>These virtual war games open up new doors for training in the U.S. military. Often, the only way to train airmen is with real pilots who oppose them in air-to-air combat training. The U.S. military is increasingly relying on contractors to provide \u201cred air\u201d adversary support. But physically flying against adversary aircraft pilots is costly and inefficient. Earlier this year, the Air Force<a href=https:\/\/www.airforcemag.com\/acc-to-award-red-air-contracts-for-six-bases\/ rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=_blank> hired several<\/a> companies \u2014 in a multi-billion dollar contract \u2014 to get the support they needed to help pilots train across the U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2020 awesome \ud83d\ude03 Now, in a world\u2019s first, Daniel Robinson, a veteran F-22 pilot, climbed inside a real aircraft and battled an AI virtual fighter. These virtual war games open up new doors for training in the U.S. military. Often, the only way to train airmen is with real pilots who oppose them in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}