It also has to listen, and accept complex requests and demands from pilots over a scratchy and occasionally garbled radio link.
Have you ever gotten frustrated because Alexa/Siri/etc completely misinterpreted a voice request? Or looked at the quality of YouTube subtitles? That’s still lots of inaccuracy with AI speech recognition. There’s no room for that up there.
And yes, the non-deterministic nature is a huge problem given this is the very definition of a life-critical system.
I know, but these things can be trained for. Siri/Alexa is 2010 tech, not 2025. And the big benefit is that there's a pretty limited vocabulary and phraseology in aviation.
I don't see ATC being replaced yet but in the future perhaps something more automated could happen including more visual instructions.
Have you ever gotten frustrated because Alexa/Siri/etc completely misinterpreted a voice request? Or looked at the quality of YouTube subtitles? That’s still lots of inaccuracy with AI speech recognition. There’s no room for that up there.
And yes, the non-deterministic nature is a huge problem given this is the very definition of a life-critical system.