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Combat AI beats the Air Force’s top tactical experts

“A new artificial intelligence flight combat system dubbed ALPHA has taken on one of the Air Force’s top tactical experts and won. Retired USAF Colonel Gene Lee — an experienced combat instructor with ‘considerable fighter aircraft expertise’ — was repeatedly shot down during engagements with ALPHA in a high-fidelity air combat simulation. Lee called his computerized opponent ‘the most aggressive, responsive, dynamic and credible AI I’ve seen to date.'”

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