I mean I can understand artists being pissed about the prospect of neural net algorithms stealing pieces of their art to generate images but Jesus fucking Christ that mod is an asshole.
As a professional aviator who is staring down the barrel of being replaced by unmanned systems I find it absolutely hilarious that artists are so upset that the same is happening to them.
Yeah nah they ain't going to replace real pilots with drone systems any time soon. Drones have their place, but the capacity to replace significant parts of our aviation infrastructure isn't going to be there for decades. They're inherently worse for almost any operation than a manned aircraft.
Airlines? No way in hell are people trusting a plane with no pilot, and a signal interruption killing fifty people would go poorly. Cargo? Drones of that scale just don't exist yet. And fully automated systems are far from reliable enough for either market.
Drones might add new markets, but they are far from replacing current ones, and transferring real pilots to drone pilots will be a major part of it when it happens.
I mean I can understand artists being pissed about the prospect of neural net algorithms stealing pieces of their art to generate images but Jesus fucking Christ that mod is an asshole.
As a professional aviator who is staring down the barrel of being replaced by unmanned systems I find it absolutely hilarious that artists are so upset that the same is happening to them.
Yeah nah they ain't going to replace real pilots with drone systems any time soon. Drones have their place, but the capacity to replace significant parts of our aviation infrastructure isn't going to be there for decades. They're inherently worse for almost any operation than a manned aircraft.
Airlines? No way in hell are people trusting a plane with no pilot, and a signal interruption killing fifty people would go poorly. Cargo? Drones of that scale just don't exist yet. And fully automated systems are far from reliable enough for either market.
Drones might add new markets, but they are far from replacing current ones, and transferring real pilots to drone pilots will be a major part of it when it happens.
Making it fly a bigger plane is comparatively trivial.
Automated drones are all quad rotors, those are slower and more stable, and they don't scale as well. Fixed wing aircraft still require human pilots.
Self driving trucks would make more sense. Infrastructurally, bringing trains back would make even more sense.