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Planes and drones are getting pretty good at autonomous flight. You might not need pilots by the time this tech is mature.
by awb 7y ago
Planes and drones are getting pretty good at autonomous flight. You might not need pilots by the time this tech is mature.
- dmitrygr 7y agoThey said the same about doctors, and yet heart surgery is done by real people. All your NNs are entirely completely utterly pointless when faced with inputs they have never been trained on. They always suck at extrapolating, and almost always suck at interpolating as well. So when an unexpected emergency happens, what exactly are they going to do? And outside of NNs, The only thing we have are autopilots. They sometimes fail, and that is why real pilots mainly just babysit them as their main job.
- godelski 7y agoJust an FYI, planes already regularly fly by themselves. Auto landing has even been around since the late 60's.
- nradov 7y agoYes but there are still trained human pilots monitoring the auto landing systems, ready to abort if anything goes wrong. It general autonomous systems are incapable of coping with unexpected failure modes.
- godelski 7y agoSorry, to be clear, planes are not level 5. But to also be clear, there are different levels of autonomy. I'm not trying to suggest they are level 5 though.
- VBprogrammer 7y agoThe idea that airplanes fly themselves is spectacularly overstated in the public consciousness. The reality is closer to multidimensional cruise control than the pilots are just there for decoration.