{"id":212341,"date":"2020-08-22T06:11:49","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T06:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=212341"},"modified":"2020-08-24T06:41:15","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T06:41:15","slug":"ai-pilot-shoots-down-f16-top-gun-to-win-first-ever-usaf-dogfight-simulator-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=212341","title":{"rendered":"AI pilot shoots down F16 Top Gun to win first ever USAF dogfight simulator competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>The finale of the AlphaDogfight trials took place Thursday at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>The bot was made by small Maryland company Heron Systems<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Human was a Weapons School instructor pilot known by his call-sign &#8216;Banger&#8217;<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>AI pilot virtually shot down the human pilot in five rounds of mock air combat<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>The victory of machine over man raises questions about the future of air-to-air combat as the USAF hopes AI can help the military react faster to enemies\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Rachel Sharp \u2013 Daily Mail Aug 21, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">An AI pilot has beaten a US Air Force F16 Top Gun in the first ever simulator dogfight competition run by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to determine if man can beat machine in the sky.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The human pilot, a Weapons School instructor pilot known only by his call-sign &#8216;Banger&#8217;, was annihilated by his artificial intelligent opponent in the showdown at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The AI pilot in a simulation Viper fighter jet virtually shot down the human pilot in five rounds of mock air combat, showing the human brain is no match for the technology&#8217;s aggressive tactics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The event marked the finale of the AlphaDogfight trials &#8211; a DARPA project launched last year to pit human fighter pilots against machine and that runs alongside the wider Air Combat Evolution (ACE) program, which focuses on exploring how AI can be used to help military operations.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_212342\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/AI-pilot-beats-US-Air-Force-F16-top-gun.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-212342\" class=\"wp-image-212342\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/AI-pilot-beats-US-Air-Force-F16-top-gun.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/AI-pilot-beats-US-Air-Force-F16-top-gun.jpg 634w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/AI-pilot-beats-US-Air-Force-F16-top-gun-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-212342\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An AI pilot has beaten a US Air Force F16 Top Gun in the first ever simulator dogfight competition run by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to determine if man can beat machine in the sky. Pictured the simulation Thursday. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The dogfight was broadcast live Thursday and showed Banger sat in a simulation vehicle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Footage of the combat shows the experienced human fighter pilot avoiding the first shot from his AI opponent and trying to circle back around.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Banger is heard raising concerns about the bot&#8217;s aggressive tactics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8216;The standard things we do as fighter pilots aren&#8217;t working,&#8217; he says.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The bot then fires three times at the human pilot, striking him each time in quick succession.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The victory comes as the robot, made by small Maryland company Heron Systems, opted for more aggressive tactics and head-on gun attacks compared to typical human combat.<\/span><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-cqvNWZBku4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8212;<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-8649133\/AI-pilot-BEATS-USAF-F16-Gun-simulator-dogfight-competition-run-DARPA.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human pilot says he couldn&#8217;t cope with the robot&#8217;s aggressive tactics and warns &#8216;the things we do as fighter pilots aren&#8217;t working&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Fringe_Science_New_Discoveries_and_Developments"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=212341"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212344,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212341\/revisions\/212344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=212341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=212341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=212341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}