haha. Yes. Plus hacking one of our planes is like hacking a 286 PC desktop computer with spotty internet and a cappuccino machine attached to it, for the most part. We’re ok for now.

This whole AI thing reminds me of those drawings of what the early 1900s French predicted 2000 would look like. We don’t have ubiquitous ballon-based transportation or personal ornithopters, but in the broadest sense they got some of the trends right. I’d be surprised if AI took on the form of what current futurists predict right now.

Spock and Kirk talked to eachother using cellphones in the original series.
Agh, I say we’ll all be enslaved by an army of robots before any of this happens. That’s just me though….

Of all the things that could derail worldwide aviation for pilots or even just one major in the next 20 years, I wouldn't put pilotless commercial airplane's in any of the top ten.

Yeah, it could happen, I guess.

But I've seen enough much more comparatively mundane things (*) bury pilots careers en masse over the last 30 years ago that weren't half as "sexy" as an AI operated airplane to spend any time worrying about it.

Besides, if AI gets good enough to behave just as intelligently, or slightly more intelligently, than your average human, it's going to be worldwide mass unemployment. Or a Golden Age, if you think the Bezos and Gates of the world want to share the wealth.

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(*) - Like wars, recessions, high fuel prices, bad CEO bets, terrorist actions, pandemics, inflation, overreaching unions, ultra low cost competitor startups, regulatory changes, etc...

Put another way, the limit of artificial intelligence at the moment is the intelligence part. And it’s not coming any time soon at any usable scale IMO.

Don't forget that Dave bowman and Frank Poole were talking to Mom and dad on iPads.

Yep, Samsung used that very clip when Apple sued them for copyright infringement

Funny you mention that. The History Channel used to have a show with William Shatner discussing “how Star Trek changed the world.”

If you want to read an interesting book about Star Trek, try 'The Physics of Star Trek'. It's a quick read and very interesting.