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ftware and the firmware know what to do once it's plugged in. So no, you could not test it. It wasn't possible to test fast enough that it would be useful. So we ended up just waiting. It basically, well self-flying airplanes are coming. The FAA has approved an uncrewed flight test. So a remote controlled, not even remote controlled, it's flying on its own but it would have humans who could sort…
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If JFK Jr. had AI he wouldn't have died because he didn't know how to fly with instruments. The instruments would have just taken over. Because what would be the easiest thing for AI to do in an airplane? The easiest thing is to fly straight. There's nothing easier than that, right? Fly straight. And the reason that somebody like JFK Jr. would die in the crash is that you lose your orientation in the clouds. You actually don't know what's up and what's down. Like you get vertigo. So if you just push the AI button and say can you take over till we get out of these clouds, you know, fly me out of the clouds, you would never have a crash because somebody could
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n't fly by instruments. And the total amount of processing you probably have to add to a flight to make it fully AI is probably the size of your phone, right? There's no weight added. The airplane doesn't have any extra burden. It would just be smarter. So there is no way that people are going to be learning to fly the way they do now if there are even human pilots at all. So everything in aviati…
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