From: Adrian Tymes (wingcat@pacbell.net)
Date: Thu Sep 28 2000 - 19:48:52 MDT
Are you sure that by "pilotless", Boeing isn't just referring to
no-pilot-in-the-airplane? There's a difference between remote control
and AI.
Franklin Wayne Poley wrote:
>
> Given that the X-45 will be autonomous and not under tele-robotic control,
> how would you rate its overall AI capabilities?
> FWP
>
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> Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 13:46:46 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Franklin Wayne Poley <fwpoley@vcn.bc.ca>
> Reply-To: EDTV-Robotics-State-Of-The-Art@egroups.com
> To: wwwmail.boeing@pss.boeing.com
> Cc: edtv-robotics-state-of-the-art@egroups.com
> Subject: [EDTV-Robotics-State-Of-The-Art] X-45's Machine Vision System re
> "Human Equivalency"
>
> Dear Boeing:
> Last night a CTV news clip showed sketches of the X-45, a
> pilotless fighter craft which Boeing expects to have ready for use by
> 2010. However, I couldn't find it on your web site. Could you please
> direct me to someone who would be able to answer a few questions for a
> proposed educational television program on robotics-state-of-the-art?
> In particular I am wondering about the X-45's artificial vision system.
> If the pilotless fighter is to be competitive with humans it must have an
> artifificial vision and object recognition system to surpass that of
> humans, ie to exceeed "human equivalency". What current technologies make
> Boeing confident that the X-45 will surpass human equivalency in this
> sense?
>
> Thank you-FWP
>
> http://users.uniserve.com/~culturex/Machine-Psychology.htm
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