Machine Learning Model Tracks U.S. Spy Planes

Machine Learning Model Tracks U.S. Spy Planes

Among the tasks you can train a computer to perform is scanning the skies over the U.S. for the alarming number of surveillance and spy aircraft. The news web site did just that, reporting this week that it employed a machine-learning algorithm to first recognize known spy planes, and then combine that model with a large set of flight-tracking data from a commercial web site.