It feels like “quadcopter pilot” has only just became a job for humans, and already AI is gunning to take it away. Well, it’s not able to quite yet, if a recent experiment from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is anything to go by. The agency has been testing autonomous drones for a while, and last week released the results of a race pitting computers against a professional human pilot. The good news is that the human won — but only after some practice.
In a press release, NASA said the race capped two years of research into autonomous drones. The work was funded by Google, and the test craft — named Batman, Joker, and Nightwing — used the tech giant’s Tango technology to map their surroundings in 3D. The drones were of proper racing...
from
https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/27/16704056/watch-nasas-ai-drone-race-a-pro-human-pilot
from
http://ifeeltechinc.blogspot.com/2017/11/watch-nasas-ai-drone-race-pro-human.html
No comments:
Post a Comment