The DARPA AlphaDogfight was a 2019–2020

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program that pitted computers using F-16

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against one another. The computers were managed by eight teams of humans, which competed in a single-round elimination for the right to battle a skilled human dogfighter. Heron Systems corporation wrote a deep reinforcement learning software tool that bested the human pilot by a score of 5–0. The tournament program was managed by the

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. The trials took place in October 2019 and January 2020 while the finals were held in August 2020. DARPAtv (26 Aug 2020) AlphaDogfight trials, final event
video 5:07:15 — 4:39:53 is start of AI versus human event

References

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