In terms of piloting there is very little difference at all. If you can make a computer fly a toy plane, you can make it fly a 747. The only difference is the stakes in a potential crash.
A toy plane crosses a few blocks. A large commercial plane crosses hundreds of miles, massive altitude differences and regularly crosses severe weather and other hazards. The decisions made by a real pilot and situations handled are magnitudes different in scale.
A large commercial plane crosses hundreds of miles, massive altitude differences and regularly crosses severe weather and other hazards.
You realize that even commercial airliners are already on autopilot for almost the entire duration of the majority of their flights, right?
You realize that in bad conditions, the human pilot flies the plane by looking at the instruments in the cockpit, right? And that an AI can pay more precise attention to all of those instruments and respond faster than any human pilot ever could?
The decisions made by a real pilot and situations handled are magnitudes different in scale.
They're not. They're just fucking not. The decisions are the same. The price of failure is higher.
The ONLY reason we still have commercial pilots is because nobody wants their corporate fortune on the line when their AI fails and 250+ people are dead.
They can get away with pilot error, but AI error? They could be blamed for that.
We might not have autonomous cargo planes, but we do have drone-piloted goal posts it seems! They move on their own!
There's a big difference between toys and serious commercial aircraft, don't be disingenuous.
In terms of piloting there is very little difference at all. If you can make a computer fly a toy plane, you can make it fly a 747. The only difference is the stakes in a potential crash.
A toy plane crosses a few blocks. A large commercial plane crosses hundreds of miles, massive altitude differences and regularly crosses severe weather and other hazards. The decisions made by a real pilot and situations handled are magnitudes different in scale.
You realize that even commercial airliners are already on autopilot for almost the entire duration of the majority of their flights, right?
You realize that in bad conditions, the human pilot flies the plane by looking at the instruments in the cockpit, right? And that an AI can pay more precise attention to all of those instruments and respond faster than any human pilot ever could?
They're not. They're just fucking not. The decisions are the same. The price of failure is higher.
The ONLY reason we still have commercial pilots is because nobody wants their corporate fortune on the line when their AI fails and 250+ people are dead.
They can get away with pilot error, but AI error? They could be blamed for that.