One has to laugh at how supposedly bright people buy into this BS 
I totally see AI having a big role as proposed in the document. Speaking from my personal experience in my personal life I already use it quite extensively with very impressive results. I actually would not want to back to not having access to it, that how good ChatGPT 4 (the paid version) is for me.
And if I were a young student studying anything that requires thought to earn money I’d be seriously rethinking my life choices right about now.
The trouble with AI today is that it has become such a compulsory buzz word.
Many things that were previously just “a computer program” or just “an algorithm” are now called AI because that’s the phrase that is needed to appear as modern. But in fact there is little change to what they were previously.
So be becomes hard to see where true AI is actually making a difference and how wide spread it is, verses marketing hype.
I suspect true AI is much less common that we’re lead to believe and only relevant in certain specialised tasks. I don’t think we are anywhere near generalised AI.
Yes; what used to be called “software” is today called “AI” if the function is more complex than adding two numbers
It is like storing data on a remote server is called “cloud”. Or any bit of software which does anything whatsoever is called “engine”
Anybody who uses any “self learning” algorithm (e.g. neural networks) to perform a critical flight control function needs their head examined!
ChatGTP is good fun, and good fun to take the p1ss out of, but it will never be connected up to something critical in an aircraft.
You guys are seriously missing what’s out there. For example, I’m about to move and had to sign a new rent contract in French which I don’t speak almost at all.
It took me 30min to understand the whole contract, have each clause translated to me, interpreted to me and even had objections raised to me that I might find interesting. This thing can do serious work, and whoever isn’t starting to learn how to work with it and use it effectively, because you do need some skill how to write the prompts effectively, is seriously going to fall behind, just like anyone who didn’t start using PCs and the internet until they invented the iPhone.
Peter wrote:
Yes; what used to be called “software” is today called “AI” if the function is more complex than adding two numbersIt is like storing data on a remote server is called “cloud”. Or any bit of software which does anything whatsoever is called “engine”
As we concluded many times
AI = many ifs
Cloud = someone else’s computer
hazek wrote:
You guys are seriously missing what’s out there.
Out of curiosity, what’s your computer science / information technology / programming background?
I finished a grammar school where my specialty was computer science. I know how to do some basic programming and have a firm grasp on basics of software design and computer functioning. But most of the stuff I’m self taught. The rest of my education is not relevant. Aside from that I was employed in a closely related field for more than a decade.
But that is all irrelevant. What is relevant is if I’m right or wrong. And I can assure you I’m not wrong, the world will be quite a bit different in 5 years due to what we call AI today and what is yet to come.
The topic is “in aviation”. The other stuff belongs in the ChatGPT thread.
It is implicit that if EASA is involved then they are talking about using “AI” in certified systems, and I’d say good luck with that!
People who start a post with “You guys”… followed by some pompous comment tend to get short thrift here It is the sort of language used by specific professions 
