And this “real world” AI aircraft/AI ATC research is likely coming from some of the Best and Brightest in the industry, (I’m assuming that this means folks like NASA, VPI&SU, Langley, Cal Tech, MIT, Princeton, UCAL Berkeley, DARPA, (and the rest of the DOD for that matter), and so forth), who have essentially bottomless budgets and access to Einstein/Hawkings levels of genius.
And if THESE GUYS are finding it “just a tiny bit chewy”, it makes all the work done by MS/Asobo/Blackshark all the more impressive by comparison. Not that they, (MS, Asobo, Blackshark, etc.), are small fry amateur wannabees, but they’re not even in the same league as the DOD and the various top-flight universities and other government research labs, (Lawrence Livermore, Brookhaven National Labs, etc.), with access to the United States Treasury - and possibly the treasuries of other countries as well.
Frankly, I find access to the fruits of this kind of research, even if it’s only in a “mere game”, to be quite fascinating.
Before you folks decide to continue bashing MS & Co. for their seeming AI failures, please let me suggest that you get yourself a reasonably competent robot, (The Modular Robotics/Dexter Industries GoPiGo is a great choice - https://gopigo.io, and it’s a lot less expensive than the nearest competition), and then go try some simple AI, like a “simple” autonomous robot that can wander around a room, learn where things are, and find it’s way back to its charging station. Voice commands are optional. Just some “simple” hardware like a LIDAR, maybe an Oak-D, Lite, and some “simple” ROS programming, that’s all. Once you get that done, go on over to the Dexter Industries forums, and post about it there.
Note that I am not asking you to implement it in a globally large solution space (as MSFS is expected to do), just your living room - with a few chairs getting moved around occasionally - and the occasional cat or two - nothing all that complicated, right?
Go ahead. Try some SIMPLE AI for yourself. Publish your results and then come back here to complain about MS’s failures.
OK?