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I've been wondering the same thing! Teaching an AI to fly an F-16 is like putting a motor in a horse-drawn carriage. Once you get it working, it should be clear that your vehicle's design was dictated by a number of old constraints which no longer apply, and a total redesign is in order.

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Putting a motor in a horse-drawn carriage would have been a pretty monumental leap in capability at the time horse-drawn carriages were commonly used.

And that's exactly how the automobile was invented. Look for exemple at Delamarre-Deboutteville's car[0], one of the first.

[0] https://all-andorra.com/fr/automobile-delamare-deboutteville... (In french but a lot of picture)

Obviously. But folks weren't driving around in motorized carriages, complete with empty driving harness! They adapted the rest of the vehicle immediately, for obvious reasons. It would have been strange if they hadn't!

Now, human fighter pilots are largely obsolete. We've known this was coming for decades, yet we have those AIs flying giant hulking planes that are designed to carry human beings around inside of them.

My point is that this is just as ridiculous as driving a carriage with an empty harness!

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