An AI just embarrassed the US Air Force in a virtual dogfight

We’ve already seen AI conquer masters of chess, Go, and StarCraft II. But could it defeat an Air Force pilot in a (virtual) dogfight? DARPA has spent the last year trying to answer that question, through an aerial warfare contest called the AlphaDogfight Trials. The Pentagon’s “mad science” unit created the competition to assess how AI could assist pilots, and attract developers to its Air Combat Evolution (ACE) program. But before the algorithms could enter the cockpit, they had to earn the trust of their human comrades. “Warfighters trust things that work, and this contest is the first step along…

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