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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Why do you think this is going to replace air traffic control work? It's picking which gate to park the plane at. This was done by airline and airport operations teams, not ATC. Imagine if you could automatically pick gates to reduce the time a plane spends taxiing and/or minimize time passengers spend walking. That's 100% a useful application for computer optimization algorithms. Humans aren't going to do that better and it's not a function of safety that tower or ground control needs to do.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

all that's fine and good, but one just needs to see your username to fathom what could potentially go wrong.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Computer algorithms solve problems all over the world for companies already. I bet airlines already have teams of people using computer algorithms to figure crew management, flight routing, cost optimization, etc.

The fact that they're exploring quantum computers and non-classical algorithms just suggests that gate allocation is NP-Hard. Sure things go wrong when computers fail already, Look at Southwest or Delta's recent meltdown, but to act like this a bad thing is just nonsense. This should be looked at as a good thing that airlines are working on.