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Seems like it can be at least mostly automated.
by devit 2y ago
Seems like it can be at least mostly automated.
- nradov 2y agoIt only seems that way to people who know nothing about aviation.
- tuatoru 2y agoNow generalise this to education, and healthcare, and logistics.
- brookst 2y agoI don’t disagree with your implication, but let’s be honest that the incidence of totally novel, urgent, life-or-death situations is a lot lower in education than air traffic control. At least outside the US.
- magwa101 2y ago[dead]
- PapaPalpatine 2y agoYou’re probably right. I’m sure we can at least mostly automate way our judges too. /s Not every field needs automation.
- rsanek 2y agowith mandatory minimum sentencing, judges have in many cases already been automated
- lawn 2y agoJust replace them with an LLM and reap the reward!
- greenie_beans 2y agoseems like a bad idea
- n144q 2y agoListen to some ATC communications (lots of websites and YouTube videos out there), and try to get a sense of how complicated it is. You really think you are the first person smart enough to come up with this idea? If this worked, it would have been automated many many years ago. We probably would not even need pilots.
- devit 2y agoIt's probably not done due to political reasons. Most of the complication is probably accidental, due to history or human traditions. From first principles, the problem is obviously straightforward to formulate (assign nonoverlapping regions of spacetime to aircraft containing their position and destination, that they can maneuver in and such that the travel time is approximately optimal). Applying simplifying constraints to the form of the regions (e.g. a discrete set of departure slots and fixed takeoff/landing envelopes, a route that follows the optimal trajectory in latitude/longitude plus a discrete lateral offset, discrete set of altitudes that change only at route crossings), it should be possible to reduce to a discrete optimization problem solvable in linear time.
- namaria 2y ago"assign nonoverlapping regions of spacetime to aircraft containing their position and destination, that they can maneuver in and such that the travel time is approximately optimal" Very 'draw the rest of the owl'. If you handwave any harder, you'd need ATC to bring you down to Earth.
- kylehotchkiss 2y agoYes. The same AI we watch hallucinate on our code making clearance decisions for vehicles full of human lives. How HN of you!