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Comment by droopyEyelids | Hacker News Reader

What kind of ai are you talking about? The non deterministic black box LLMs we have now?

> ATC please advise, I'm about crash

> Thanks for reaching out! As you probably know, crashing an aeroplane is not generally recommended. There are many factors that may contribute to a crash, such as weather, technical malfunction or human error. Appropriate training, regular maintenance and flight planning are some of the best practices which help minimise the likelihood of a crash. I recommend revisiting these factors. Is there anything else I can help you with today?

Of course not LLMs, but approaches using mixed integer programming, genetic algorithms, and/or simulated annealing.

Are these new products from Rockwell automation?

Oh, algorithms, they should have thought of those.

The kind that could land an atomic-powered vehicle on Mars, eight light-minutes from human contact? In 2012?

It's utterly ridiculous to expect humans to do this job for much longer. It's what computers are for.

Gosh, you'd think someone would've thought of this already.

Oh you mean the kind that has no conflicting traffic in 0.5 to 2.5 AU?

Really? There were 3 aircraft involved. Game AI in the 1980s was good enough to handle the amount of "conflicting traffic" involved here. You're arguing in favor of automation, not against it.

For that matter, next time you visit the Bay Area, drop by the CHM in Mountain View and take a look at what SAGE could already do in the 1960s.

Yeah no it wasn’t just three, actually listen to the ATC auto between PAT25 calls into the controller and the crash — not to mention it’s still far more than a single aircraft on a remote planet

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