CHINA-PLA: CHINESE AERONAUTICS ENGINEERS CLAIM TO HAVE DEVELOPED AI SYSTEM WHICH CAN TEACH COMBAT DRONES TO WIN DOGFIGHTS
The South China Morning Post (January 30) disclosed that the domestic peer-reviewed journal Acta
Aeronautica et Astronautica Sinica had published a report (January 28) where researchers in Sichuan
province say they have developed an artificial intelligence system that can teach Chinese combat drones to
win dogfights thousands of times faster than comparable American technology. The researchers at the China
Aerodynamics Research and Development Centre in Mianyang, Sichuan province, said the higher learning
speed could help the drone identify “cheating manoeuvres” by human pilots, reduce a computer chip’s
workload and outperform opponents in complex, large-scale air combat. They added “The algorithm in this
paper can be extended to an air combat with multiple AI agents, which will be closer to the real situation in
a battlefield”
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