AI airforce: Artificial Intelligence fighter pilot beats human in virtual dogfight

The teams had to start from the ground up to teach their AIs how to fly a fighter jet. Lee Ritholtz, director and chief architect of AI, from Lockheed Martin, said: "You don't have to teach a human [that] it shouldn't crash into the ground. "They have basic instincts that the algorithm doesn't have. "That means dying a lot. For Lockheed Martin, it took several servers running trial-and-error dogfights around the clock to come up with its final AI, a piece of software capable of being run on a single graphics card. The winning team's AI had been through more than 4 billion simulations.