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jewen@comporium.net wrote:
IMO, while true AI (ability to make cognitive decisions and self learning)
is being experimented with in industry, it still remains primarily a tool
for SciFi writers. At the end of the day AI is one of the latest fad
terms and we experimental AC builders still need to practice saying 'Pilot
In Command.'
I didn't realize that groups were actually changing the meaning of the term to apply to something that actually exists. I've been tracking "artificial intelligence" since I earned my BS degree, and the best definition I have ever heard for the term is "The ability to have a computer make decisions that are one step harder to make than what we can do today." First, neural nets were AI, but then they got common so it was just a neural net...not real intelligence. Then Bayesian networks were all the rage, but now that's just a glorified decision tree. Fuzzy logic got some play for a while, but that has degraded to just being a weighted decision tree...et cetera...so forth...and so on.
Personally, I like Ed's approach, a line of gauges with needles that all point the same way when everything is normal. The only thing I'd add, and he probably has it, is a "Heh, Dummy, look at the gauges. Something's wacky." light. The computer is great, but I'd only want it for backup intelligence.
BTW, the latest Sport Aviation had a 'scenario' article on the possibilities of having a GA airplane that could be completely automated. I still don't know whether to be dumbfounded, or just scared. All that stuff works great when it's new, but can exhibit some very strange symptoms when the sensors start getting old and output out-of-range data. The odometer pickup in the rear differential of my truck went bad (2000 Dodge Dakota). The symptom was that when I slowed in preparation for a turn, the engine would shut down. Imagine, a bad sensor results in the engine quitting whenever you put the gear down. Now imagine that sensor getting the same sort of maintenance as some of the 152's that you see rotting on the ramp at a lot of small airports. Be afraid. Be very afraid 8*)
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