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Well, thank goodness that didn't happen. Think you know what artificial intelligence is and how

it applies to military aviation? This week on the Fighter Pilot Podcast, U.S. Air Force

Colonel Randall Gordon, Vice Commander of the 412th Test Wing at Edwards Air Force Base, California,

joins us to explain exactly this. And sorry, but you sci-fi fans, you may be disappointed.

There's so much baggage associated with the term artificial intelligence. To be artificially

intelligent, does that mean that the machine is cognizant? Does it have a soul? Is it self-aware?

All those sorts of terms that kind of come along with it. What artificial intelligence truly is

stats, if you will, the way that we were taught stats in math class, but just done on a gigantic

scale with large amounts of data sets and incredible compute power. But it's not what you see necessarily

on TVs and movies, right? It's a very, very different kind of world. So in your private life,

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