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Do you mean the “Airbus demonstrates first fully automatic vision-based take-off” type of not possible? https://www.airbus.com/newsroom/press-releases/en/2020/

• traceroute66 6y ago
  My predominant aim was countering the wholly incorrect "automatic take-off was possible 15 years ago but the airlines don't use it" statement put forward by the OP. However, since you ask, I would say two things : (a) The very Press Release you link to does take care to manage expectations (e.g. "Airbus’ mission is not to move ahead with autonomy as a target in itself"). (b) Your automatic take-off in 100% of situations is never going to happen. Sure, on a perfect dry day with nil-winds you can conjure up a great sounding Press Release. But throw in some "real world" and you can forget it. Cross winds, monsoon flooded runways, engine failures, bird strikes, failures of electronic systems (yes, it happens, even with triplicate redundancy) ... the highly trained humans at the front are not going anywhere, nor is their training regime going to be cut back.
  • bpizzi 6y ago
    Right now unsupervised learning techniques aren't able to teach a meaningful world model to a neural network. But this won't last (hopefully), thanks to our brilliant co-humans doing cutting-edge research on that subject. And when a neural network is able to differentiate and anticipate possibles actions of winds, engines, birds and onboard electronics, then you have an autonomous take-off on par with humans pilots, enhanced with an instant feedback loop with built-in checklists and avionics. It's a big stretch of course. But never say never, they say.