After some small news in 1998 about norns (cute little cretures in Creatures game) trained to pilot eurofighters, there have been silence. When the nazies attack, these fierce warriors are ready to war behalf human race.
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"Now, on commission from the British Ministry of Defense (Bedford, Dera Research Institute), the ”cute” little characters are being trained as Eurofighter pilots. The goal of this vision is ”to put human intelligence inside computers by the year 2020.” The concept of unmanned armed vehicles (UAV) is being tested with the Norns. The term ”unmanned" is not synonymous with ”not live”; it is just that, in this case, there are no human beings piloting the Eurofighter.This commercial application was selected because it contains the first artificial species capable of learning. Only the ”born” flyers are bred further; the genes of those who crash are eliminated. It is only after 400 generations that the Norns master aviation. The death of the virtual test pilots means nothing. They are immaterial victims of military progress. Artificial life (still) has no needs of its own; all it wants to do is to survive combat. Hunger and thirst are trained out of it. Furthermore, it is capable of tolerating stress, and can withstand tremendous acceleration without injury, since it possesses no body and its cyberlife-brain has been trained exclusively to carry out this task."
"The Norns keep the Eurofighter aloft in such an individualistic way that the programmers are now not even capable of explaining it any more on the basis of an analysis of the software."
AGENT PROJECTS
Norns go to war Agents from Albia [15] , is an article by Clive
Davidson in the May 9 issue of New Scientist [16]
[Image] which describes how Cyberlife [17] , the company
[Image] which created the popular creatures [18] alife
product, is working with the British government's
Defense Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA) to
create agents to act as adversaries for pilots
flying missions in flight simulators.
"In their virtual world, norns live as cute,
clever pets that reason and learn. In the real
world, the military has enlisted the
technology behind norns to create top fighter
pilots. ... After running populations of 40
pilots through up to 400 generations of
evolution, CyberLife has software agents that
don't crash their planes and can keep targets
in their sights for a long time. On paper,
these synthetic pilots look as good as human
aces, but DERA has not yet put humans through
exactly the same test on a simulator. That
would be one of the next steps for DERA and
CyberLife to take."
In March CyberLife Technology signed an agreement
with the UK's Ministry of Defense research
organization to build a simulated military aircraft
controlled by a software agent. CyberLife will be
using real flight model data from the MOD to
simulate an aircraft akin to the Eurofighter. "This
intelligent plane, however, requires no human
intervention and will be capable of sustaining
flight, pursuing enemy vehicles, evading attack and
making reasoned decisions in order to complete its
mission requirements."
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Almost. The ships would be comprised of modules manufactured in separate locations. Everyone of them could function to some decree on their own. Every single module is launched to the orbit as an "individual" and attached to the other modules according to what kind of a bigger ship is wanted.
Hmm... you mean sort of the way Airbus has parts manufactured all over Europe? But they don't put the parts together until the last minute?