Shall We Play a Game?

The mission of the AlphaDogFight trials is "essentially pushing the potential for automated aerial conflicts and boosting the trust military personnel need to have in AI systems." It's a three-day showdown that starts Aug. 18 between tech teams picked from around the country, each vying for bragging rights when it comes to the ultimate dogfighting algorithm. However, those teams -- Aurora Flight Sciences, EpiSys Science, Georgia Tech Research Institute, Heron Systems, Lockheed Martin, Perspecta Labs, PhysicsAI and SoarTech -- first need to test their wizardry against five artificial intelligence platforms created by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab. The second day involves round-robin competitions to determine the final four. Those winners square off against each other until a winner is determined.