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Yeah it’s great to point an AI at a very detailed and specific engineering manual and have it distilled down into bullet points. There’s certainly no room for i

Yeah it’s great to point an AI at a very detailed and specific engineering manual and have it distilled down into bullet points. There’s certainly no room for information loss in that plan! /s

compiler-guy 1mo ago
Plus everything important is always written down. It’s more true in aviation than anywhere else (except maybe space flight), but still.
- kjs3 1mo ago
  And if it's written down, it's accurate. 100. Percent. Accurate. /s
  - pineaux 1mo ago
    And because it's accurate the AI will know how to weigh that accurate information against other accurate information in such a way that it will give you a great answer without any help. In other words: any amateur will be able to do aircraft maintenance! What can go wrong? /s
  - lazyasciiart 1mo ago
    You know, if I had to make that bet, I would choose airline maintenance manuals as the test case.
    - kjs3 1mo ago
      Have you seen the maintenance manuals on an aircraft production line? They're in 3-ring binders, so you can take out and replace pages. They are constantly being corrected and updated. The industry recognizes they're never at 100% (and to their credit mitigation is part of the process).
IAmBroom 1mo ago
I hate AI as much as anybody, but claiming that it's not useful for "distilling volumes of data into a short list of places to look first" is silly.
- SteveNuts 1mo ago
  It’s very good at that, but aeronautical engineering and maintenance is the last place you’d want that.
msl 1mo ago
GP did not suggest anything of the kind, though. They talked about "figuring out where to look" which very different. In that kind of use, it doesn't really matter that the model might hallucinate or draw faulty conclusions, as you're not using it figure out what to do, how or why. The only thing it is telling you is where some information is located, after which you go check it out from the actual source of truth. If the reference turns out to be wrong, you'll notice immediately.

Yeah it’s great to point an AI at a very detailed and specific engineering manual and have it distilled down into bullet points. There’s certainly no room for information loss in that plan! /s

compiler-guy 1mo ago

Plus everything important is always written down. It’s more true in aviation than anywhere else (except maybe space flight), but still.

kjs3 1mo ago
And if it's written down, it's accurate. 100. Percent. Accurate. /s
- pineaux 1mo ago
  And because it's accurate the AI will know how to weigh that accurate information against other accurate information in such a way that it will give you a great answer without any help. In other words: any amateur will be able to do aircraft maintenance! What can go wrong? /s
- lazyasciiart 1mo ago
  You know, if I had to make that bet, I would choose airline maintenance manuals as the test case.
  - kjs3 1mo ago
    Have you seen the maintenance manuals on an aircraft production line? They're in 3-ring binders, so you can take out and replace pages. They are constantly being corrected and updated. The industry recognizes they're never at 100% (and to their credit mitigation is part of the process).

IAmBroom 1mo ago

I hate AI as much as anybody, but claiming that it's not useful for "distilling volumes of data into a short list of places to look first" is silly.

SteveNuts 1mo ago
It’s very good at that, but aeronautical engineering and maintenance is the last place you’d want that.

msl 1mo ago

GP did not suggest anything of the kind, though. They talked about "figuring out where to look" which very different. In that kind of use, it doesn't really matter that the model might hallucinate or draw faulty conclusions, as you're not using it figure out what to do, how or why. The only thing it is telling you is where some information is located, after which you go check it out from the actual source of truth. If the reference turns out to be wrong, you'll notice immediately.