After a while, it produces a nice straight and level trajectory.
"You must think in Russian..."
Wait, wrong movie.![]()
"When we first hooked them up, the plane 'crashed' all the time," Dr Thomas DeMarse, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Florida, said. "But over time, the neural network slowly adapts as the brain learns to control the pitch and roll of the aircraft. After a while, it produces a nice straight and level trajectory."
How is this any different than teaching the idiots who walk in the door the first day of flight school how to fly? From the way it's described above, it sounds exactly the same.
Unfrtunately, it's even less than that. This 'skill' is something that 99% of 3rd graders in the Xbox Generation can do these days.
All of which is a Grand Canyon's worth of difference from being able to walk out to a Raptor on the ramp, hop in, and fly it.
So students at a university spent half a million dollars to make a brain that can fly jets?
Sounds like it'll be more fault tolerant too.
Can we inject that into my wife's brain?
My thought is that they wanted to test a proof of concept and it sounds a lot cooler in the resulting report if the brain could "fly" a sim of a multi-gazzillion dollar F-22 instead of a Microsoft Flight Sim Cessna 172.