entering the cockpit.
In August 2020, DARPA’s AlphaDogfight trials a series of AI experiments inside a simulated fighter jet cockpit pitted an Air Force F-16 pilot against an AI pilot in a virtual dogfight. In a blow to fighter pilot egos everywhere, man lost to machine.five times in a row.
But it wasn’t a
real battle. Nobody knows that better than USAF Colonel Dan “Animal” Javorsek, the manager for DARPA’s Air Combat Evaluation (ACE) program.
“We envision a future in which AI handles the split-second maneuvering during within-visual-range dogfights, keeping pilots safer and more effective,” Javorsek said at the outset of the ACE program.