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The AI system that controls the fighter F-16 developed by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA has evolved, adding the ability to operate in a squadron and two.
DARPA is promoting a program called ACE (Air Combat Evolution) as fighter jets have rapidly developed by AI from 2019. The ultimate goal of the ACE program is that humans do tasks that require high-level cognitive judgment, such as overall strategy and goal prioritization, and weapon selection. To do.
The ACE program achieved a feat of winning 5 matches against a veteran pilot in August 2020, just 1 year and 2 months from the start. Recently, it is focusing on air-to-air combat automation, and it was revealed in March 2021 that it has realized the function of working with the squadron.
In the released video, the bandit approaches the squadron while turning from the other air in air combat with the setting that all aircraft are equipped with short range, precision machine guns, and long-range and low-accuracy missiles. Predicting the path of the bandit’s movement, they pass through and apply pincers. In other simulations, it can outperform and secure location selection.
In the March 2021 announcement, it was revealed that in addition to this squadron linkage function, DARPA is evaluating the pilot reliability of AI. The ACE program strives for the division of labor between humans and AI, but in order to achieve a complete division of labor, humans must be able to feel that AI deserves life. For this reliability evaluation, the ACE program tried to quantitatively promote human reliability in AI through various sensors that measure the physiological response of the L-29 pilot that introduced AI control.
In March 2021, the ACE program will be evaluated as Phase 1, and DARPA will complete Phase 1 with a transition from a simulated flight test scheduled to be achieved in the second half of 2021 to a test flight in the real world. Related information can be found here.
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