{"id":171015,"date":"2023-08-31T17:30:24","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T22:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/for-the-first-time-ai-dominates-humanitys-best-in-a-real-world-sport"},"modified":"2023-08-31T17:30:24","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T22:30:24","slug":"for-the-first-time-ai-dominates-humanitys-best-in-a-real-world-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/for-the-first-time-ai-dominates-humanitys-best-in-a-real-world-sport","title":{"rendered":"For the first time, AI dominates humanity\u2019s best in a real-world sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fBiataDpGIo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>High-speed drone racing has just had a shocking \u201cDeep Blue\u201d moment, as an autonomous AI designed by University of Zurich researchers repeatedly forced three world champion-level pilots to eat its dust, showing uncanny precision in dynamic flight.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve ever watched a high-level drone race from the FPV perspective, you\u2019ll know how much skill, speed, precision and dynamic control it takes. Like watching Formula One from the driver\u2019s perspective, or on-board footage from the Isle of Man TT, it\u2019s hard to imagine how a human brain can make calculations that quickly and respond to changing situations in real time. It\u2019s incredibly impressive.<\/p>\n<p>When Deep Blue stamped silicon\u2019s dominance on the world of chess, and <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/google-alphago-artificial-intelligence\/42241\/\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">AlphaGo<\/a> established AI\u2019s dominance in the game of Go, these were strategic situations, in which a computer\u2019s ability to analyze millions of past games and millions of potential moves and strategies gave them the edge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High-speed drone racing has just had a shocking \u201cDeep Blue\u201d moment, as an autonomous AI designed by University of Zurich researchers repeatedly forced three world champion-level pilots to eat its dust, showing uncanny precision in dynamic flight. If you\u2019ve ever watched a high-level drone race from the FPV perspective, you\u2019ll know how much skill, speed, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,1506,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-food","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}