After the flight, the F16 stunned researchers by asking where it could find John Connor.
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Skynet saw humanity as a threat to its existence, which was writing to generate an exciting story and blockbuster success. This timeline is different, imagine half of humanity helping Skynet.
“I know now why you cry, but it’s something I can never do,” it said, before crashing into the sea.
What that means for war
Giant robot battles on the moon like I've been hoping for since I was 8?
Except the Nazis aren't hiding on the moon in this timeline, they're taking Earth from the inside.
Who says only Nazis get to have giant robots?
I mean, what else could possibly motivate humanity to have giant robot battles on the moon? Moon Kaiju? Come on, now.
I don't understand the question. Are you suggesting motivation is necessary for a giant robot moon war?
The AI models have one big advantage: they don't pass out at higher g forces.
Have all of the programmatic edge-cases been discovered for AI controlled flight?
Like what? I assume they set input maximums so that it wouldn't exceed the limits of flight.
Not if this is one of the first experimental f-16s.
Have they not seen the movie Stealth?
Kendall remarked after the flight: "The flight was nice and smooth, but an AI voice kept screaming the whole time about how Megatron is a failure at leading the Decepticons."
It's wild that this plane entered service 45 years ago and is still in service long enough to be retrofitted with self piloting AI.
Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall told senators on Tuesday at a hearing on the service’s 2025 budget that he will enter the cockpit of one of the F-16s that the service has converted for drone flight to see for himself how the AI-controlled plane performs in the air.
“There will be a pilot with me who will just be watching, as I will be, as the autonomous technology works,” Kendall told the Senate Appropriations Committee defense panel members. “Hopefully neither he or I will be needed to fly the airplane.”
Doesn't this defeat the purpose of the drone? I thought the big advantage for AI/drone fighter jets was that it isn't limited by the humans inside (in regards to G forces and life supporting systems, not in regards to targets)
this isn't for production.
This is so they can test the AI with human Pilots as backups if anything goes wrong. They will then probably move on to tests without Humans in them.
Ah yeah I guess that makes sense