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Autopilot is a deterministic algorithm specifically for flying a plan.
There's a 95% chance this air traffic controller "AI" will be a non-deterministic LLM because that's the goto grift. The rate of errors LLM's make for a task is 40-60%. People will die and no one will be responsible.
True, if they try this with a llm that's both stupid and will kill people. I disagree that no one will be responsible, who ever made that system should be responsible.
Only use of a llm MAYBE interpting the speech over the comms between control tower and pilots and using that to put entries in the tracker for who is going where. This could also be a simple program on a screen, click the plane tag, click what it's going to do(take off, land, taxi, etc), click where that will happen and then you don't need any llm.
Still Ai because the computer is determining if there will be a collision and activating alarms but that's deterministic and prove able. Plane a is at 7500 ft 7 miles out traveling at 2500 mph towards runway 47r. Plane b is at 35000 feet 20 miles out traveling at 4000 mph, can plane b also use runway 47r? Yes you can do the math to calculate. But let's say you make a mistake and drop a 0 somewhere, wouldn't it be nice to have an additional system that alerts you if the minimum distance between planes will be less than 1000ft for example?