The US government has expanded the use of an AI tool for advising air traffic controllers to assist in managing air traffic across the entire national airspace system. Airline executives have voiced support for the rollout, but the US labor union representing air traffic controllers has said it was not involved in designing or testing the AI-driven system.
ahhhhh…?
In a sane world that would be some old school specialized non LLM system that is validated properly… but I very much doubt it especially as they are using human employees as a liability shield.
The big problem with the field of machine learning is that they “surpassed humans” at machine vision back in 2015. Once something barely works whatsoever, they are always without fault have a benchmark where it does better than humans, no matter how shit it is.
Absolutely! Even though both your engines have been disabled due to bird strikes, you should be able to land safely at a nearby airport. Would you like some guidance on which airport to choose?
Idea for a horror short film: pilots interacting with FAA AI after an MCAS failure.
This can only go well. How long before we get reports of crashes avoided due to pilot judgement overruling AI guidance from towers? Or just straight-up plane crashes?
