Re: Boeing's HAL-2001

From: Eugene Leitl (eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Fri Sep 29 2000 - 04:15:15 MDT


Franklin Wayne Poley writes:
> Maybe
> even enough AI to improve upon its own hardware and software and evolve

Uh, apart from hardware (duh), you have to impose tight limits on
software's variability. Evolving evasion maneuvres is one thing,
evolving friend-foe recognition is perhaps a bit silly.

> into a better fighter plane in its noncombat time. Anyway I'm quite

I think co-evolving dogfight strategies is best done in a simulator,
orelse it's going to be a bit expensive.

> impressed by the US Navy's GA list <GA-list@aic.nrl.navy.mil>. They don't
> seem to miss much of GA that is going on in the world.
 
If you read it, you must have noticed how pathetic the state of the
art is. I'd rather believe in a hypersonic stealth fighter than in
.mil people being significantly farther than the whole of academia and
industry.



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