Funny

Luckily the people in charge seem to have great judgement with this sort of thing

AI, possibly. Algorithms, yes. Generative AI, fuck off all the way back to reddit where the training data came from.

High reliability organizations need deterministic tools that can be trained on so that operators can understand how they will work. They do not need an AI black box that might distract them with a hallucinated situation in the middle of a critical moment.

It's called Machine Learning. AI is synonymous with LLM crap now.

Give it few weeks, and they have collected meteics that the AI did the job just as good as the human within that timeframe. A few weeks down the line, the tables have turned, the humans are in charge of notifying the AI if it makes errors. A few weeks later, metrics will show that humans hasn't really notified anything, and humans are removed from their position, leaving the AI fully in charge.

Within a year, a critical halucination or a job which AI lacks experience to handle will happen and a very preventable accident will occur. The owners will shrug it off as something that would definitely happen with humans in charge, and that the reduced costs outweigh the additional risk.

Although actual self driving cars are already better drivers than humans, although the bar is so low that Satan would have to dig for it.

Note, Teslas are not self driving. They're mislabeled lane assist.

Yes, because people don't tune out when they have a machine doing most of the work. This is ridiculously stupid and dangerous. Don't do work for them in trying to reason around it.

Nope, it doesn't even have an LLM component.

It just uses a ton of current and historical data to detect potential route and congestion issues.

Definitely, there needs to be so much more info provided before anyone here could make a reasonable judgment

My wife keeps talking about wanting to fly up to New England this year, but I'm not setting foot in an airport until I po longer run the risk of being sent to a concentration camp.

But, this program has nothing to do with LLMs or GenAI. It's just good ol' fashioned machine learning.

It's much less safe than it was and it's fucked up, it is still monumentally safer than driving. People are shit at risk assessment when it comes to air travel.

I mean, it's still statistically safer than driving, and will be until like the fifth major plane crash.

Yes but none of them should be let anywhere near decision making. When we talk driving assistants that actually work, those are driven by a hard set of rules, with deterministic decision making.

Thank you.

Yeah "artificial intelligence" research was going on for at least half a century before LLMs, but the clueless will see this headline and think OMFG ChatGPT is GoNnA RuN tHe AiRpOrT!!1!

I'm no ATC but I thought that to get good in crises, one has a train consistently...

Won't this cut down too much on practice?

I knew the headline wasn't the full story, but that's better what I expected (LLMs with a deterministic verification method before making decisions to prevent hallucinations from causing plane crashes.)

FAA and the entire industry needs a proper modernization. $100 trillion (theoretical) was the said figure following the 2025 Potomac helicopter incident . Instead of funding or defunding, the current administration just attempted to employ ICE in place of TSA workers, other airport positions, and air marshals positions.

edit: trillion = in theory, no source available

I avoid it as much as humanly possible. Haven't flown in years. And it looks so much worse now.

"This was irresponsible behavior from me, and a betrayal of trust. I have adopted strict safety protocols to ensure that this cannot happen again"

. . .

< does it again >

We used to call that "machine learning" but the tech bros developed a god complex.

Bon voyage, and, uh..bonne chance..