Victor Tangermann in Futurism –
An AI-controlled virtual fighter jet just beat a human pilot in a dogfight.
The win came about during the finale of the US military’s AlphaDogfight challenge, put on by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA), in which big-name military contractors including Lockheed Martin competed for the crown.
To some, the win signifies a turning point in what machine learning systems are capable of in the battlefield.
