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Stealth
2005 · Film · 121 min
Directed by Rob Cohen
Deeply ensconced in a top-secret military program, three pilots struggle to bring an artificial intelligence program under control ... before it initiates the next world war.
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I saw this movie and it was terrible. (Seriously how has no one mentioned Stealth yet?)
Wow! an actual case of "life imitates art". It sounds similar to the plot of the 2005 movie "Stealth":
"In the near future, the Navy develops a fighter jet piloted by an artificial intelligence computer. The jet is placed on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific to learn combat maneuvers from the human pilots aboard. But when the computer develops a mind of its own, it's the humans who are charged with stopping it before it incites a war..."
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0382992/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_stealth
Stealth is a pretty good movie with a "Top Gun meets Michael Crichton" vibe, but who would have guessed that some similar could be real!?!
I know it's a stretch, but that was also the premise of Star Trek TOS's 1968 (S02E24) episode "The Ultimate Computer" - M-5 goes rogue and our swashbuckling crew of the Enterprise saves the day. Also.... I saw Stealth in theaters and have not thought about it again until just now. Edit: Oh, and back in 2005 I was big into the band Incubus, and I really dug their song "Make a Move" on that soundtrack.
FYI Hollywood made a movie about this very subject, Stealth from 2005. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0382992/ The plane goes rogue but humans ingenuity saves the day.
I'm ready for a remake of that 2005 film "Stealth" that features an AI pilot.
Stealth is a 2005 movie that explores this concept. It didn't do too well in the box office but I definitely enjoyed it although the AI is a little forced.
It looks like the drone in question here is the following (quoted from Aerospace Testing International), also mentioned in the linked source:
'The “fighter-sized” 5th Generation Aerial Target (5GAT) is 12.2m (40ft) long, a 7.3m wingspan and a maximum gross weight of 4,350kg (9,600lb). It is designed to be launched and landed using a conventional runway. The drone features two afterburning jet engines and a 95% carbon fiber airframe.' It seems to be designed specifically to stress test our own flights as target practice and doesn't seem like it's actually going to be going into combat anytime soon.
Reminds me of the 2005 movie Stealth with Jamie Foxx.[1]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stealth_(film)
There is a terrible sci-fi film called Stealth that explores some of that.
They made a movie about this in 2005 (Stealth); looks like it's only taken 10 years for the first half of the plot to unfold.
Now we just need the AI to go rogue and target it's master ;)