Artificial intelligence in the driving seat

The participants, from the Defence, Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), had three days to transform a'dumb' car into one which could navigate a course using artificial intelligence (AI) . The challenge aimed to demonstrate the benefits of reinforcement learning and the differences between the virtual and physical environments. When you are faced with a problem you have not faced before you're forced to think laterally and think outside the box. That's why we love to give our teams and particularly our early career staff these different and exciting challenges. It gives us the opportunity to engage with new technologies which are going to be really important to us in the future.