DARPA now has AI-controlled F-16s working as a team in virtual dogfights

Re:DARPA now has AI-controlled F-16s working as a team in vi... by kolinko on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @03:58AM (#26552262)

Modern AI wins at games where the rules are known (like go, or even Dota), but war irl is a game where you need to invent and adapt to a changing set of rules.

As an example - if we had modern ai in ww2, it would help with the position of tanks and soldiers, but wouldn’t invent the idea of breaking Enigma, or the idea of making decoy tanks for the d-day.

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Re:DARPA now has AI-controlled F-16s working as a team in vi... by usrusr on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @04:24AM (#26552431)

Not just lack of out of the box thinking, also the inherent outdatedness of the corpus of documented war in general. There's even a saying describing the problem, "fighting the last war". Which basically means that human strategists are already more like GPT than they should. The problem is further compounded (beyond inherent outdatedness) by the general scarcity of the corpus, fortunately there just hasn't been that much war written by recent history.

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Re:DARPA now has AI-controlled F-16s working as a team in vi... by hugh-avherald on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @07:13AM (#26553609)

I'd wager it would have defeated the US in the Battle of Midway. And the position of tanks and soldiers is a gigantic part of warfare.

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