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America Trembles as Transportation Secretary Announces Plans for Air Traffic Controllers to Lean on AI Tools (futurism.com)
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[–] -2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I get what you are saying. My point is there are many types of Ai. We don't know which they are going to use since they just said Ai which such an overused and overloaded verb we can't tell what they mean. You are assuming llm, which would be stupid, wasteful and likely dangerous. But not all Ai is llm.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    not all Ai is llm.

    In the modern context where this is happening, it is. Would it be clearer if they said “LLM” explicitly? Yes. But that’s what is meant, they don’t mean one of the previous definitions of “AI”

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Is it? How do you know? Let's just say you are right? How would that work? Have a person type in "I'm at Seattle airport, I have a plane looking to land from Arizona, they are 18 miles out and 2500 feet high, which runway should they use?"

    That takes longer to type not even including calculation time. There is literally no benefit.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    Well, yeah. Obviously there’s no benefit, that’s why this is a fucking stupid idea which will kill people if implemented

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago

    They get a digital signal from sensors, they need a digital output to determine if a plane is clear to land. Why do they want to incorporate human language at all? My guess, they are using the term Ai for pr reasons. Get signal from plane, determine best runway based on other plane locations, output result to screen. Technically marketing/pr can use the term Ai, easier and safer for everyone plus cheaper and better for environment and they can still jump on the hype train.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago* (1 child)

    The fact that you say that I am assuming LLMs tells me you don't understand what you are talking about.

    No shame on not knowing. But some shame on having an strong opinion on something that you don't know.

    (btw, I have a phd in CS)

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    I don't have strong opinion. My whole point was that Ai is a buzzword with many possible meanings and it's use was likely pushed by the or department. Before we form strong opinions let's get details on what they will be using and how

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