This is almost the same tripe I read @1990.
Everyone thinks AI (back then called neural networks) is sooooo smart. People love to assign super-fancy capabilities to technology without ever pausing to look into how that technology works-and what it’s limitations really are.
Those people don’t understand AI. The capabilities of AI are exactly what they were back then (as far as their ability to replace stuff like ATC.). And those capabilities will be pretty much the same 30 years from now.
AI is good at certain very limited things, but something like ATC is many decades off.
Stories like that are designed to get investors to throw more money at companies to support technology they don’t understand. This story is almost verbatim what was written almost 30 years ago-and all the claims that there would be no humans in ATC in a handful of years.
Back in the early 90s, the FAA threw many billions into the AI rathole and were strung along by contractors who always promised this stuff was “right around the corner,” but whom I’ve always suspected knew it wasn’t going to work.
Stupid regulators plus stupid politicians plus stupid investors always yield stupid results.
Last edited by jcountry; 01-28-2019 at 04:08 PM.