An AI agent flew a USAF training aircraft for over 17 hours
VISTA X-62A training aircraft for over 17 hours. VISTA can use software to simulate the performance characteristics of other aircraft. On this occasion, it mimicked a human pilot instead.has been engaged in such a way on a tactical aircraft, Lockheed says. The aim is to use the platform to test aircraft designs that can be flown autonomously.
"VISTA will allow us to parallelize the development and test of cutting-edge artificial intelligence techniques with new uncrewed vehicle designs," US Air Force Test Pilot School director of research Dr. M. Christopher Cotting ."This approach, combined with focused testing on new vehicle systems as they are produced, will rapidly mature autonomy for uncrewed platforms and allow us to deliver tactically relevant capability to our warfighter."You can disable notifications at any time in your settings menu.
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