Comments by "Keit Hammleter" (@keithammleter3824) on "Will Robots replace Pilots?!" video.

  1. Petter did this video in 2017 - 5 years ago. 5 years is a long time with respect to AI progress. I wonder if Petter still has the same view today. At 10:12 cost is mentioned. Cost is ALWAYS critical in any business. There's nothing unique about the air industry in that regard. You find that sometimes robots are used because of superior performance - as in DaVinci robot surgery, but nearly always robots get used as soon as the robot is cheaper than a human. That happened in the car making industry in the 1970's as the decision making is very limited on a production line. At 9:13 Petter said there are no driverless trains. He got that wrong - the monorail commuter train (driverless) in Sydney Australia goes back at least 20 years. I remember riding on it when visiting Sydney 18 years ago. Here in Australia driverless freight trains are ho-hum now. Petter is correct in saying running a train is comparitively simple. Driving a car is very complex, but self driving cars are almost here. I should think that piloting an aircraft is somewhere in between - because airspace is simpler and more regulated than driving on roads. Those Australian self driving railway locomotives are not a new type. They are standard locomotives that have been retrofitted with a computer control system. It will happen the same way in airliners. Existing types will be retrofitted with computers and mechatronics that inferface with the control systems and autopilot just as the present pedals, control column/yoke/joystick, and switches do. Petter thinks robot pilots won't happen within his working life. He doesn't look that old, and it may well do so. Any job that involves decision making on a logical basis - as piloting is - is ripe for take-over by robots. It matters not how frequent decisions have to be made - in fact the more the quantity of decisions per minute, the more a robot can outperform a human. Job that involve creativity and lateral thinking, such as art, engineering, physics, teaching students, are not suitable for robots. In many Mentour Pilot videos, Petter has made the case that accidents have occurred because problems have caused the pilot flying to be mentally overloaded. For an Albert electronic brain, that is merely a matter of installing enough capacity, and is a problem that can be completely eliminated. Industrial psychologists believe that the average human brain can cope with three problems concurrently. Four if you are exceptional. For computers there is no limit.
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