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DARPA Developing Aircraft Brains That Can Think, Learn Mid-Mission

Monday, May 2nd, 2016

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DARPA Developing Aircraft Brains That Can Think, Learn Mid-Mission

An Air Force F-22 Raptor. Photo: Air Force.

The Defense Department’s top secret laboratories are working on artificial intelligence (AI) that will allow military aircraft to think, learn and adapt to threats mid-flight.Arati Prabhakar, director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, said the ability of robotic brains to operate in the physical world is still relatively limited, so fears of rogue humanoid Terminators are unfounded. Within the digital world, AI can allow unique versatility and adaptability for military platforms, including software-defined combat aircraft.“Today our aircraft go out.…

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