Sorry for the shit image quality but here’s another ad by the same company for a better idea of it
Flew over the may day rally in San Francisco.
They’re dabbing on us
/- Matt christman
Sorry for the shit image quality but here’s another ad by the same company for a better idea of it
Flew over the may day rally in San Francisco.
They’re dabbing on us
/- Matt christman
Flown in a plane by a human.
Give it time, soon enough they’ll be AI planes crashing all around us and it will be considered “progress”
Can’t speak for this specific instance of course, but in the UK you occasionally get people flying messages over football ⚽ grounds or whatever, and I have read more than once that the company doing the flying don’t actually know what message they are pulling - they just get the packaged up message and fly it where the customer asks them to.
Don’t know if that’s true, though and it’s arguable whether that absolves them completely of responsibility for the message being shown.
EDIT - that being said, the first example I found contradicts me - here, the message was known by everyone, including the pilot!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/26783751
EDIT 2 - a particularly nasty example here, where someone mentions banners not being checked. They definitely should have been.
https://news.sky.com/story/outraged-airport-bans-banner-flights-after-white-lives-matter-burnley-stunt-12013293
“Due to the nature of the activity, banners are not checked before take-off and the content is at the operator’s discretion.”
I mean they use autopilot for most of the flight.
In a lil Cessna banner plane?
They’ll cram AI in there given the chance
Uhh yeah, almost all planes have an autopilot system.
Cesnas don’t have the fully hydraulic avionics needed for autopilot, no?
Since when is that a requirement? Other types exist.
You can use linkages and mechanics in automation too, not just fluids, pneumatics as well.
I really didn’t think Cesnas were as modern or complex as to have that sort of arrangement … I can’t think how it would make economic sense.
That being said, we live in an age of long range drones being based on light aircraft, so maybe they can be retrofitted these days?
Modern…? Why do you think it’s complex?
They’ve been around since 1912.
What’s this about economic sense? It’s to make pilots jobs easier and allow longer flights.
Because Cesnas are very lightweight, low powered, and cheap.
And I was thinking of the sort of modern autopilot that could actually navigate flying a complex pattern over a city in order to best show off the banner.
Having said that, I bet there’s some law against using autopilot at such low altitudes.
Which isn’t (yet) AI.
Still isn’t a human, the distinction is irrelevant.
A computer or a set of instructions is handling it, instead of a human, saying it’s Ai or not instead is missing the entire point.
You are saying one’s okay, but not the other? How would they be different?