Originally Posted by
MagooFlew
Dont forget, beyond the existing UAS example, the DOD’s official multi-year foray into this topic recently concluded with the ALIAS system field tests by DARPA on the major weapon systems (essentially your standard R2D2), which stopped short of fully automating anything. It’s a stepping stone but the researchers acknowledged the hurdles of “pilotless” were not even worth pursuing at this point. So I don’t lose sleep at night. As long as they wait until we’re all old enough to rate a robot FO, I wouldn’t mind, as long as it laughs at my jokes and doesn’t drink all the coffee without starting another pot. You know, the basics.
Yes, about a decade ago some senior defense leaders were jumping on the "visionary" bandwagon and declaring that the F-35 would be the last manned fighter the US would develop.
I found those statements to be laughably ludicrous at the time, and ten years later it only looks more ludicrous.
They simply don't know how to make that kind of AI (and if they did, there are a variety of concerns as to whether they should).