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From yesterday:
The FAA Is Rolling Out Its AI Air Traffic Tool Nationwide
“Chat GBB what’s a tarmac?”
Wow, our government will do literally anything to avoid having to pay decent wages and benefits to air traffic controllers.
A tool that cost a little under a BILLION dollars…so far…saved $62,000? That’s the stupidest waste of taxpayer money in the last 5 minutes with this administration. And of course it saved airlines the money, while taxpayers got stuck with the $800 million dollar bill for the WalMart brand airplane route planner.
It's not going to save anyone any money on flights because companies just pocket the difference, but does anyone know how the jet gas/ diesel/ consumer auto gas markets are connected? Is there a chance the reduced jet fuel demand reduces prices at the pump? That's probably the bigger picture goal here even if it doesn't actually work that way, because our government is run by dumbasses who wouldn't even think to ask if they're connected.
This looks like one of those large upfront costs things that saves money over the long run because new critical infrastructure systems always cost a lot upfront and need a slow rollout to prevent things like, say, grounding every single flight in the country, but long term pay for themselves. On paper I'm usually in favor of short term spend for long term savings but unfortunately this is a kleptocracy and this is an indirect handout to the airlines.
The petroleum market is very complex and I don’t have the brains to dig into it. Suffice to say that thanks to all the bombs and missiles flying around and hitting oil infrastructure right now the markets have become unhinged as far as what oil costs and what refined products cost and the reltaionships between those and market/future prices. IOW per bbl cost can be down and gas prices up, or vice versa. For now though just know that it’s going to be years before proces could start coming back down thanks to the destroyed refining and shipping capabilities.
But anyway, you already answered your question…they pocket the difference. And odds are that even if refining capability catches back up, consumers won’t see a commensurate drop in price. “Record profits”, y’know.
Hey Claude, is runway 5 free?
"Oops, sorry. You're absolutely right to question that. Runway 5 did have a plane already on it with 254 passengers on board. Would you like me to assist with notifying their next of kin?"
I wanted to make a joke like "no but runway 185 is" since the number of a runway is its degrees from magnetic north and each runway gets two numbers, 180 degrees apart, depending on the direction you're landing from. But the numbers are rounded to 10 meaning runway 5 isnt a real runway number so the joke doesnt really work (it would be runways 01 and 19 for 10 degrees and 190 degrees)
Considering AI's tendency to hallucinate, being told runway 185 is free makes perfect sense for an AI to output.
There's a lot that goes into getting this joke, and even though you explained it. I still don't get it.
I feel like half the joke is that Claude would infact consider runways this way and it's highly likely not understanding this or accidentally miscommunicating with it would induce the exact sort of fuck up he's describing.
Also gcp grey has a video that explains this topic really well.
Didn't you just explain how runway 5 (or 05) is 50 degrees and the joke just should have been runway 23 for 230 degrees?
Yep. Runways are 01-36. The zero is dropped after rounding
FAA denies it's related to the new system. they say it's a communication equipment outage.
so 🤷
Right, the timings is PURELY coincidental
Right? Old reliable tech is suddenly the problem after rolling out the shiny new 875 million dollar AI system? Def sounds fishy to me
Are you telling me the administration might be lying?
... From the CNN article linked in this thread:
yeah but it wasn't the ai system
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/update-to-network-connecting-air-traffic-control-system-led-to-outage-before-ground-stop-sources-ay/
Dude, seriously, STOP linking to CBS news as if it's a legitimate news organization? Stop it.
What's up with CBS?
It was bought by Larry ellisons son, who promptly placed Bari Wiess as CEO, a woman who's only bualification is a low view count "independent" news org.
Basically they are a mouthpiece for the administration now. All dissenting journalists purged. Can't trust what they report on things like this
Her qualification is her undying support is Israel
OMG, people are going to die because of this.
No fucking way 😆 staying home for the holidays then
WHAT
Based on the description in the article, it doesn’t sound like LLMs. It sounds like they are using the older meaning of AI to refer to just computer programs in general.