> What sets ALPHA apart is the genetic fuzzy tree decision system that can calculate an opponent’s movements or strategies 250 times faster than you can blink.
That's just not fair.
One more comment, can this thing (ALPHA) land an Airbus A320 on the Hudson?
Assuming an AI like this was given 100% control over a commercial plane, it would have been programmed with such a checklist. It would have also been tested on this ability in a simulator (just like regular pilots). The AI would have easily worked out in an emergency that it couldn't reach the runway, or any alternative runway and not even bothered trying.
The only question is, would the AI have decided that the Hudson was a valid surface for a water landing attempt? And that really depends on the database programmed into the plane. It can't really see the river, so the database would need to have the river marked as water, at the correct elevation. It also can't really see the bridges (maybe if it had LIDAR), so the bridges would have to be included in the database too, so it could pick a good stretch to try and land it. Oh and boats too... either it would have to dynamically spot them, or get lucky.
But if the database correctly reflected reality, then it would see the opportunity, try to execute it and potentially succeed.
I'm not saying it wont eventually happen, but no: they unequivocally cannot fly our aircraft in takeoff/landings, emergency situations, etc.
An AI pilot can learn from every mistake made by every AI pilot, can absorb everything important from their collective experience.
It's not a fair fight. If the designer set about testing the AI's ability to land on water, eventually it'd find a way of doing it, and then that could become part of the corpus of experience.
AI pilots stand to theoretically be better than any pilot ever. If there's ever a better human pilot, their experience can be documented, examined, and imported into the core AI.