10-14-2024, 07:47 AM
This post was last modified 10-14-2024, 07:49 AM by FlyingClayDisk.
(10-14-2024, 05:23 AM)727Sky Wrote: A list of Boeing incidents... I had no idea there were this many problems happening with Boeing aircraft.
[Video: https://youtu.be/cT5_qxWsF88]
AI generated videos irk me sometimes. The video says One Air (HC) 211 lost it's "Pilot heaters". I don't remember ever having a "pilot heater", but I sure remember having 'pitot heaters'. But going back to "pilot heaters" for a moment; not to sure how much I would have wanted one, but a "pilot air conditioner" would have been nice (especially while sitting on the ramp before the PCA units or APU's kicked in). But I digress.
"Pitot" heaters aside, there's a bigger issue here; one which doesn't jump out at most people right away. And, it speaks to a more fundamental problem which we'll being seeing more and more of in the future, at Boeing and many other industries even outside of aviation.
The video is one of these new AI generated videos. The narrator is not a real person, but rather an AI generated voice. Okay, so what's the big deal, right? Well, the AI voice is generated from a script, a text script. This text script is loaded into an AI process which generates the voice we hear on the video. But wait...it also does something else. It does something we see every day on the computer...it spell checks the script. But it doesn't just spell check; the AI algorithm also interprets the intent and lexicon. We're talking about airplanes (the algorithm reasons) so therefore a word like "pitot" must be an error because "pilots" fly airplanes, right? So, the algorithm changes "pitot" to "pilot". I think you can see where this is headed.
Oh sure, in this particular instance, the mistake is innocent enough, just an erroneous word in a youtube video, but...what if this was a training video, or in a section of FMS or EFIS code loaded into another computer? What if this was an assembly instruction, or an AD? Or, a simulator?
And it's not just limited to aviation either; it's happening everywhere, and more and more every day. Industries want to eliminate "bodies"; warm bodies are expensive. Automation is way cheaper, so let's go with automation. And what better automation is there than intelligent automation? Enter AI, artificial intelligence.
The Boeing 737-MAX needs to be grounded, and it needs to be grounded for a whole variety of reasons. Boeing, as a company, needs to go sit in the corner. The world's first big clue to Boeing's demise was their move of the corporate headquarters from Seattle to Chicago in 2001. Their aircraft were still being manufactured in Renton, but management is in Chicago, 1,500 miles away. And when Boeing got in trouble with the MAX, what did they do?? They moved their HQ from Chicago to Arlington, VA...just to get closer and comfier with their government consorts. So, it should be easy to understand why a company like Boeing could fall into the trap of A.I. cutting heads on the payroll, and the above is what we get as a result. No, Boeing didn't make the video, but this is the direction they're headed. And, how much you want to bet that Boeing has more than one training video with similar mistakes in it?
"Pilot heaters" anyone??
