In a world fraught with obstacles, who will prevail in a race against time: human or machine? See what happens when we race a drone controlled by artificial intelligence against another guided by a professional human pilot: http://go.nasa.gov/2hSENey | NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

For the first time, an AI pilot has beaten champion-level humans at drone racing. This new system, called Swift, combines the simulation training that has allowed other AIs to triumph at chess, or video games, with onboard sensors and computation to outrace its human opponents in the real world. Read the Nature paper: https://go.nature.com/3OYaSwR | Nature Portfolio