Microsoft Partnership Series: Blackshark.ai

[travelabroad 177]

Why do I always get a bad feeling, when I hear that name?

To me, the name 'BlackShark' sounds like a CIA Black-Ops Commando Unit..
- or maybe, I've watched to many Hollywood movies.

Edited August 7, 2020 by travelabroad

[RudyB24 296]

This is incredible technology. The use of all these Azure servers spread over the world makes this AI and DL process work in reasonable time. It'll be hard for a potential competitor to beat that, or their name must be Google or Apple ... or NSA. 🙂

[steve310002 1,198]

About 12 years ago I undertook an MSc. in Remote Sensing in one of  London's big university's (basically satellite and aircraft image analysis mixed with GIS). At the time I was fascinated at how algorithms could be produced to enhance flight sim auto-gen. I remember thinking what if we could make a program that could detect the footprint of buildings and vegetation and then automatically populate the imagery using A.I.

Well, I wish I had the expertise back then to make that happen. I'd be a very rich man. I did try messing around with it but didn't get very far. I am very happy though to see my vision has been finally realized 😂

Edited August 7, 2020 by steve310002

[ErichB 3,643]

This is the missing piece of the  puzzle.  Amazing tech.

[guibru 474]

8 hours ago, Dermot McClusky said:

I thought the CEO/co-founder of Asobo (Sebastian Wloch) was a pilot? Maybe he's the one? I don't know, I could be wrong.

Anyone from Asobo reading this, tweet out how many of you are pilots 😄

I confirm Sebastian Wloch is a pilot pro, I spoke with him at the X019 in London and it is at this time that I saw the first time FS2020. 😊

[Cryzin 44]

6 hours ago, Belgarath said:

And the head of all at Microsoft is a German... 😉

Staya is Indian. 

[-Belga- 141]

I was talking of Jörg Neumann...

[fogboundturtle 2,708]

I am glad this is finally out of the bag. I am tired of hearing that MSFS 20202 is XPlane 11 + Ortho. This is as far from the truth as it can be. It's AI drawing building. This mean the autogen really feels different everywhere. 

[Cryzin 44]

3 hours ago, Belgarath said:

I was talking of Jörg Neumann...

He is just a team manager. 

[Slides 1,552]

1 hour ago, Joyal said:

He is just a team manager. 

He's Head of Flight Simulator at Microsoft. He's the main guy for the sim.

[sidfadc 1,344]

What a time to be alive, come a long way from me playing Jet Set Willy on my Spectrum 😜