Re: J-xx
Ok. This thread has gotten silly.
I was thinking about responding, but you can read my previous posts, they already address the points brought up. We should get back to the actual topic of the thread.
There's lots of material about AI available on the 'Net if you want to know the actual state of technology. PM me if you need help finding something specific.
... Ami.
The problem with you is that you think it is necessary to recreate every damn unnecessary baggage/garbage/balony the human brain has to carry before you can create a truly AI UCAV with BFM capability. That's wrong. You only bring in what you need.
A lot of pilot training is there to overcome such a baggage because we are not inherently flight animals.
I don't understand why do you need to bring up matters like pathfinding on a flight AI when pathfinding simply does not apply to this field. I don't even understand why you have to bring the Mars Rover in the first place. Does the Mars Rover fly in any way?
I don't understand why you think electronics have problems discerning IFF when in fact, we **ARE** currently relying completely on electronics for IFF. You think humans can distinguish friend or foe better? War experience tells you we cannot. Todays electronics have a whole host of means to distinguish friend from foe, from IR and optical imaging, to SAR/ISAR to analysis of radar signatures. Signatures, patterns, forms can all be compared digitally to a large database of known forms. In that sense, AI is vastly superior when it comes to recognition than any human.
While indeed the human brain is a marvelous device, it is far from perfect. The baggage in its design and its huge complexity makes it vastly inefficient for repetitive tasks that must be done in high precision and in vast speed. Why is it that we have autopiloting, digital fly by wire and terrain following that are being performed by computers? Do you understand that a lot of military training is drilling to do the same tasks over and over again repeatedly until it finally shines? We are spending too much training to OVERCOME the human brain baggage and its inefficiencies to do REPETITIVE TASKS in precision and speed, something AIs can do much more quickly and consistently more accurate by focus of design.
When John Boyd reduced the art of BFM into a series of equations based on physics behind the concept of energy maneuvering, it does not take long to figure out than an AI can perform such calculations so much faster than any human can, and even compare alternatives, in order to determine the optimal flight solution to a maneuvering question.
