“Computers do things more precisely and faster than humans,” says Mary “Missy” Cummings, associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT. “But we need humans to deal with uncertainty. It’s this combination that interests me.”
Cummings has experience of this gap between computers and people: for 11 years she was a US Navy pilot, landing fighter jets on the “almost mediaeval” setting of an aircraft carrier. “People are running around, relying on intuition, and accidents happen. I want to make that go more smoothly.”
She and her team are working on algorithms to be used alongside air-traffic controllers, automating as much as possible but retaining the human ability to make snap judgements. And, in conjunction with the US Office of Naval Research in Washington, DC, she is developing a UAS that can be summoned by a smartphone, land in a battle zone, pick up an injured soldier and fly them back to base. “We’re working on light detection and ranging [LiDAR] sensors that will help it gauge the terrain,” she says, “but it will be the operative with an iPhone giving tactical instructions.”
“Humans are better at dealing with the unpredictable. When computers have those skills too — well, that will be The Matrix,” she says.
Source: Wired
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Dont you think that if every thing will autonomous then if in a critical situation human intelligence is required it will dull coz their mind will not asctive as it will be when they do everything. But I will admire the work. It will be very use full when in a case pilot is not available.