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Decades of development and successful deployment first in non-safety-critical settings then further demonstration in progressively higher stakes environments.
by mulmen 3y ago
Decades of development and successful deployment first in non-safety-critical settings then further demonstration in progressively higher stakes environments. In addition demonstration that the technology has any benefit to this domain at all.
My concerns have more to do with the technology industry than AI itself. AI is a buzzword and the technology as it exists is of dubious benefit here. We have an unhealthy tendency to deploy technology too early and for the wrong reasons. These are undesirable impulses in aviation.
- kelseyfrog 3y agoThank you for your honesty. Are there any other industries that you hold at a similar standard?
- rlpb 3y agoI can't speak for GP, but "safety critical" is the term relevant to this thread I think. Any situation where people die if you screw up, where that includes screwing up at a higher level, such as introducing ill-thought-out process changes.
- kelseyfrog 3y agoThank you. That's a good grounding that helps orient toward what I feel is being conveyed. I sense there's a lot of overlap with SCADA-enabled infrastructure: transportation, nuclear, industrial control, &c. And we should be hesitant to deploy AI in those environments. Am I getting that right?
- Aeolun 3y agoAnalysing cockpit voice recordings for confusing terms (using AI or not) does not strike me as something that would affect the operation of the aircraft in any shape or form?
- mulmen 3y agoYou’re assuming the AI works and does what you expect. Neither of those are reasonable assumptions. Everything has an opportunity cost. To be beneficial AI has to be better than the status quo to be. In aviation that’s a much higher bar than “not nothing”. It has to be better than the time saturation flight crews already experience.
- Aeolun 3y agoI’m not assuming the AI works at all. Maybe we are talking about different things? If the flight is over, and some analysis spits out a bunch of garbage, how does that hurt anyone? Nobody is going to tell pilots that they should stop using the word ‘and’ even if the AI spits that out as a possible point of improvement.
- mulmen 3y agoIf the AI doesn’t work it is a waste of everyone’s time to even look at the output. As I already said nothing is free. There’s always an opportunity cost. Collecting data for unknown benefit has a cost in dollars, time, and potentially human life. “The AI doesn’t have to work” is exactly the thoughtlessness that aviation avoids and technology breeds.