{"id":188461,"date":"2024-05-01T02:24:08","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T07:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/watch-the-first-ai-vs-human-dogfight-using-military-jets"},"modified":"2024-05-01T02:24:08","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T07:24:08","slug":"watch-the-first-ai-vs-human-dogfight-using-military-jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/watch-the-first-ai-vs-human-dogfight-using-military-jets","title":{"rendered":"Watch the first AI vs. human dogfight using military jets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/watch-the-first-ai-vs-human-dogfight-using-military-jets2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time, an AI fighter pilot faced off against a human pilot in a \u201cdogfight\u201d using actual jets in the air \u2014 a huge milestone in autonomous flight and military automation.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C8yjtaZfNCw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe X-62A team demonstrated that cutting-edge machine learning-based autonomy could be safely used to fly dynamic combat maneuvers,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=C8yjtaZfNCw\">said<\/a> Frank Kendall, secretary of the Air Force. \u201cThe team accomplished this while complying with American norms for safe and ethical use of autonomous technology.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>The challenge:<\/strong> AI-controlled planes could be a boon to the military. Not only could they reduce injuries and accidents to pilots, AIs also have the potential to rapidly analyze a lot of data \u2014 allowing for more informed decisions, more quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, an AI fighter pilot faced off against a human pilot in a \u201cdogfight\u201d using actual jets in the air \u2014 a huge milestone in autonomous flight and military automation. \u201cThe X-62A team demonstrated that cutting-edge machine learning-based autonomy could be safely used to fly dynamic combat maneuvers,\u201d said Frank Kendall, secretary [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188461","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\/188461","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}