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The Morning After: An AI flew a US Air Force training aircraft for over 17 hours
The top news stories today: An AI flew a USAF training aircraft for over 17 hours, Blue Origin made solar cells from simulated Moon dust, TikTok creators might soon put some videos behind a paywall.
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Kyle Brasier, U.S. Air Force
An artificial intelligence agent recently flew a Lockheed Martin VISTA X-62A training aircraft for over 17 hours. VISTA (which stands for Variable In-flight Simulation Test Aircraft) normally uses software to simulate the performance characteristics of other aircraft. On this flight during a testing period in December, however, it mimicked a human pilot. US Air Force Test Pilot School (USAF TPS) Director of Research Dr. M. Christopher Cotting said in a statement, "VISTA will allow us to parallelize the development and test of cutting-edge artificial intelligence techniques with new uncrewed vehicle designs."
This is the first time AI has been engaged in such a way on a tactical aircraft, Lockheed says.
