Unmanned Aerial Vehicles or UAVs will one day have such incredible artificially intelligent software that they will fly autonomously, and they will learn from their mistakes, downloading all the information to all the other units that have a similar brain. That means that these electronically run aircraft will be smarter than our current pilots and there will be very little if any pilot error, or glitches with the software which could possibly cause a crash.
If we consider how fallible humans can be, or if we look at the NTBS reports after aviation crashes, we see that in 90% of the instances, pilot error was a large contributing factor. Those types of crashes will cease to exist, and Aviation will be much safer. As a pilot myself, this really bothers me, and I don't trust software not to crash my computer much less the airplane that I am flying in. But still this is what will happen in the future.
Even more interesting will be the fact that this artificial intelligence software will learn, when it makes a mistake, it will be better next time, and not only will that particular aircraft learn, but all that information will be downloaded. Indeed, all of our airplanes will get consistently smarter over time. Just like pilots get more experienced over time, and therefore, they become safer.
Only in this case the exponential increase of intelligence, observation, and experiences in flying will be well beyond anything a human pilot could ever hope to achieve. In the future our UAVs that are used in the military will not have robotic pilots sitting in a room flying them; they will fly all by themselves autonomously, and use artificial intelligence software to pick their own targets.
That may scare a lot of people now, and it may bring visions of the Hollywood movie; "Terminator" but that will be the future. Please consider all this.
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