For the first time, an AI pilot has beaten champion-level humans in drone racing.
Read the article: Drone Racing at Champion Level with Deep Reinforcement Learning
Until now, the light reflections, rapid decision-making and complex planning required to race around a racetrack at the level of top human racers have been insurmountable for artificial intelligence.
But this new system, called Swift, combines the simulation training that has enabled other AIs to triumph at chess or video games with built-in sensors and calculations to outperform its human opponents in the real world.
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