Ah yes, the same technology that was used to kill 123 Iranian school children
What an absolute slap in the face for the underpaid and overworked ATCs. Been bitching about more money for years?
Naaah how about your boss is now a clanker
900 million could just hire a lot of skilled engineers and air traffic operators that can be well paid but that doesn’t sound as cool and futuristic as AI
because we havent had enough air disasters in the past 2 years.
Well, here’s hoping they are in charge of Air Force One.
“You were right to push back - that runway was in fact occupied”
That’s the end of me flying. The wife and I will now take extra days, get a rental and have us a road trip
Absolute worst possible use of an LLM: something safety-critical.
I’m sorry, you’re right. I should not have directed that plane to the runway with the two planes that have already crashed into each other.
It’s fine the first two have obviously canceled each other out leaving the runway clear.
This is an Air Traffic Control system, once it’s on that a ground traffic control system.
8,750 salaries worth of money betting AI can do this with no actual evidence it can.
In theory, an automated system should be able to outperform humans at a rote task like this under the right conditions. However, I don’t imagine throwing LLMs in the mix without redesigning the whole system for automation is going to end well.
We’re fucked.
I don’t see ANY comments in here where it’s clear that people read the fucking article.
“Har har, AI and ATC, I’ll make a funny joke about flying will be unsafe”. Yes, it’s expected, but if you actually read what this is - it’s going to issue predictions about how busy particular times are, basically.
ZERO use of the AI in the tower by ATC to control aircraft in any way.
Sure, they might try to introduce such a thing - at which time your jokes will actually apply!
it’s going to issue predictions about how busy particular times are, basically.
and for that it’s somehow worth $875M.
I don’t see ANY comments in here where it’s clear that people read the fucking article.
Average Lemmy user: Get baited into a headline about AI and immediately bitch about how it’s the worst thing in the world. No nuance, no legitimate discussion about the issues, just rage.
It definitely seems like the 100% anti-AI NO MATTER WHAT people hold the majority. heh. Which is only annoying every so often, as I mostly agree with them. Just not totally agree. heh
There are a small number of cases where the current batch of AI tools are ok and fine. Certainty is the enemy, as per usual.
That’s only step one. Just wait.
I can at least live with your comment. lol.
I don’t necessarily disagree, but we’re certainly not there yet - on this particular front.
My initial reaction was “well that’s gonna end badly”. But then I realised they are probably not talking about generative AI. ML approaches can be pretty useful for optimisation, so this might not be as bad as it sounds. Really depends on what the actual technology is and what purpose it’s being put to…
Nope, I’m almost certain they mean the same LLMs they use for anything else. If they are using grok in intelligence and military you think they won’t for this?
What are you basing that on? The article has some open speculation, but says it’s not known.
LLMs make no sense in this context. It’s not like they’re writing a report every time a plane comes in to land
I guess the next time I want to travel internationally I’ll take a train to Canada and fly out from there.
