The Morning After: An AI flew a US Air Force training aircraft for over 17 hours

An artificial intelligence agent recently flew a Lockheed Martin VISTA X-62A training aircraft for over 17 hours. VISTA (which stands for Variable In-flight Simulation Test Aircraft) normally uses software to simulate the performance characteristics of other aircraft. US Air Force Test Pilot School (USAF TPS) Director of Research Dr. M. Christopher Cotting said in a statement, "VISTA will allow us to parallelize the development and test of cutting-edge artificial intelligence techniques with new uncrewed vehicle designs." This is the first time AI has been engaged in such a way on a tactical aircraft, Lockheed says. It's like they've never seen the 2005 box-office bomb, Stealth… Get our daily audio briefings, Monday through Friday, by subscribing right here.