Comments by "HalfSourLizard" (@halfsourlizard9319) on "Will Airbus “Project Dragonfly” spell the END for Pilots?!" video.

  1. Old timey people said the same thing about lift/elevator operators ... The feeling of safety is an illusion that's fairly malleable, especially with generational changes in how humans interact with/trust technologies.
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  2.  @cfromnowhere  And there are still a few people who build wristwatches woth hand-made gears ... And a few people who ride horses ... And weird authors who insist on using ancient word processors or typewriters ... And courtroom sketch artists ... There are always some lingering bits of the old tech; things don't get fully replaced when the world advances ... But these are extremely niche cases.
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  3.  @ayushgarg8396  The better question is: Why would humans be needed at all?
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  4.  @MentourNow  Fairly popular ... especially at airports!?
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  5. Obviously, you're not a scuba diver.
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  6.  @i.m.gurney  The classic diver joke is that there are 2 kinds of divers: Those who have peed their wetsuits ... and liars.
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  7. As the shitty low-cost airlines show, most humans choose price and price.
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  8.  @mahatmarandy5977  Hrmmm, I assumed it was because train drivers (conductors? whatever they're called) are cheaper (compared to pilots) -- and I believe there's only one of them? In the medium term, I suspect we agree -- it's much, much more probably: 1 human as PIC + an AI 'helper'; eventually the AI becomes the PIC (in practice if not in name) and the human watches Netflix and monitors for faults/takes over in emergencies ... More uncertainty beyond that.
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  9.  @ayushgarg6069  Enjoy your life always seems like a rather good suggestion.
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  10. I mean, it'd presumably be cheaper to have a fully automated plane with some airline 'hostages' on-board to make you 'feel safe' ... Unclear why you think that actually changes safety numbers, though.
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  11.  @killer.crayon  1) Risk of lawsuit and increased insurance premiums ought to suffice to align incentives. 2) Neural networks, as I'm sure you know, aren't subject to the need to cover corner cases in algorithms... and they'll have vastly more training data than the meatpilot.
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  12. I'm incredibly surprised that fully-automated cargo flights (probably with a backup meatpilot onboard) aren't already happening. Good luck convincing the passengers (who seem largely immune to evidence) that AI is a safer pilot in the short- to medium-term, but cargo don't care ...
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  13. Not sure what point you're trying to make ... but Airbus / Boeing's jets have autoland, as well.
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  14. That was 15 years ago in a plane whose design dates to the late 1970s.
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  15. The point isn't whether some particular corner case could/could not be replicated by AI, the point is, on net, which is safer?
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  16. Why the heck would you try to use a GPT system to fly a plane? That doesn't seem remotely applicable to this problem.
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  17. I can't imagine how tedious having to talk to some rando locked in the cockpit with you for the entire flight would be.
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  18. You may have misunderstood supply and demand when ...
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