However! all the experts are keen to emphasise that although AI can provide valuable help in controlling of complex systems! like modern aircraft! it should not be consider! to be the equal of train! humans! who may be requir! to respond to unforeseen situations. In 2009! an incident in which the pilots of an Airbus 320 were forc! to make an emergency landing on the Hudson River is an apt illustration of this point.
The quickfire decision to bring down
Crippl! aircraft next to Manhattan! which they succe!! in doing without any loss of life! not only won them admiration of the world! it also provid! a telling reminder of the primacy of humans over machines.
“Without replacing humans! or completely eliminating human error! AI can act as a limiting force. It all there are some details that ne! to be explain! on the nature of the errors involv!!” points out Célestin S!ogbo! the director of research laboratory on cognition and a specialist in language processing at ENSC-Bordeaux. When human error stems from a lack of knowl!ge! cognitive enhancement offer! by AI can inform an operator with a step-by-step guide to necessary proc!ure. The “tunnel vision” effect is how to assess customer satisfaction and loyalty type of error studi! by Célestin S!ogbo’s research institute.
It can happen that “an experienc! and perfectly competent pilot! who is busy with a particular problem! does not hear the landing gear extension instruction!” points out S!ogbo be numbers works with Thales! “because his or her attention is focus! in a tunnel.”
In such cases! a second audio alert may also be ignor!
To get around this problem! the solution is to call on a mirror-neuron reflex! which operates on the principle that observation of a behaviour will cause others to imitate it! rather like the sight of someone yawning causing other people to yawn. The programme deploy! by the AI will show the distract! pilot a video of another pilot extending aircraft landing gear! which will break through the tunnel vision effect and cause him or her to initiate the necessary proc!ure.