AI slays top F-16 pilot in DARPA dogfight simulation

Re:AI slays top F-16 pilot in DARPA dogfight simulation by LandR on Friday August 21, 2020 @10:25AM (#24235126)

There is probably a way they know his, but can you really fire a missile at something on a computer screen miles away and be fully confident the thing you are shooting at is enemy military aircraft? And not say a civilian aircraft ?

I guess if its going fast enough its almost certianly a military aircraft. Can the radars in the military jets identity the type of the aircraft before it gets blown out of the sky?

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Re:AI slays top F-16 pilot in DARPA dogfight simulation by greedo on Friday August 21, 2020 @03:43PM (#24238199)

Radars on the F-15 can determine the type of turbine on an aircraft...

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Re:AI slays top F-16 pilot in DARPA dogfight simulation by DuskStar on Friday August 21, 2020 @10:37AM (#24235237)

Another way is to announce a no-fly zone and then assume anything within the zone is hostile. (Yes, civilian planes can still fly there, but they've literally been warned at that point)

I assume this would happen pretty quickly when a war went hot.

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Re:AI slays top F-16 pilot in DARPA dogfight simulation by Pelic4n on Friday August 21, 2020 @10:36AM (#24235227)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identification_friend_or_foe

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Re:AI slays top F-16 pilot in DARPA dogfight simulation by DuskStar on Saturday August 22, 2020 @09:38AM (#24244035)

That lets you distinguish friend from not-friend, but not enemy from airliner.

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