(August 31, 2020 at 6:56 pm)Rhizomorph13 Wrote:(August 31, 2020 at 6:50 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Why couldn't it fly itself? Fully autonomous drone technology already exists, the question is simply one of scale. No tech breakthroughs required.
As for bug-free, there are no fool-proof systems. But there's no barrier to making personal air travel as safe as personal ground travel.
Boru
Good news though, computers never get drunk or tired.
The amount of stuff that can go wrong with machine intelligence is staggering. Any piece of hardware (and software) that increases in sophistication takes comparatively that more safeguards as well as fail-safes along with increasingly more testing and development the more sophisticated it gets. We're nowhere near an A.I. good enough for a fully automated driving vehicle. There are stretches of roads they got down, but places where the real tests are, like unmarked dirt roads or what have you, will make or break all autonomous vehicles.
I reckon we'll be closer to an A.G.I. before then.
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool." - Richard P. Feynman