As a former civil engineer who worked with the FAA for nearly a decade, I can tell you that no amount of money will magically modernize one of the oldest and most bureaucratic industries in the world.
Getting airport personnel to adopt basic technology, like tablets for taking notes, is already a challenge. Now imagine trying to integrate AI into systems built on decades of outdated infrastructure and procedures.
We still regularly rely on scanned, handwritten records dating back to the early 1900s. Good luck getting an AI model to accurately interpret a century of barely legible chicken scratch. 馃槶
The technology might be ready, but the industry certainly isn鈥檛.
Getting airport personnel to adopt basic technology, like tablets for taking notes, is already a challenge. Now imagine trying to integrate AI into systems built on decades of outdated infrastructure and procedures.
We still regularly rely on scanned, handwritten records dating back to the early 1900s. Good luck getting an AI model to accurately interpret a century of barely legible chicken scratch. 馃槶
The technology might be ready, but the industry certainly isn鈥檛.
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