The aircraft flew up to speeds of 1,200mph. DARPA did not reveal which aircraft won the dogfight.

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    2 months ago

    To fight optimally, AI needs to have a survival instinct too.

    Evolution didn’t settle on “protect my life at all costs” as our default instinct, simply by chance. It did so because it’s the best strategy in a hostile environment.

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      It’s the best strategy because it takes decades to make a fully functional human, and you need humans to make more humans, plus there is the issue of genetically sustainable population sizes, etc. A fully functional aeroplane can be made much quicker, in a factory that can spit out several of them in a day. They are more expendable.

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      2 months ago

      Only if the goal is reproduction. You need to survive to reproduce.

      If the goal is maximum damage for the least amount of economic cost then a suicide (anthropomorphizing the drone here) can very much make sense.

      No one would argue that a sword is better than guns or bombs, because you still have the sword after attacking.