This Is the Most Aerodynamic Bike, According to AI

Competitors at this year's World Human Powered Speed Challenge are going to have to contend with this--a bullet-shaped bike designed by an artificially intelligent software program. In 2012, a bicycle screamed across a flat, open road of the Nevada Desert at an astounding 88.13 miles per hour, or 133.78 km/hr. This record, established by a Dutch team at the annual World Human Powered Speed Challenge, could now be in danger, owing to a new bike designed by researchers at IUT Annecy, with the help of computer scientists at Neural Concept, a Subsidiary of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). To be fair, the IUT Annecy researchers can't take full credit for the bike's sleek, aerodynamic shape, nor can any human for that matter. You see, this machine was, in part, designed by another machine--an artificially intelligent program developed by researchers at Neural Concept, who are presenting their findings today in Stockholm, Sweden, at the International Conference on Machine Learning.