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Old 19th Jun 2019, 08:24
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Originally Posted by KiloB

And for all those second guessing Sully; remember a big part of the decision making was that ‘even with a 90% chance of a successful turn back, there was a 10% chance of a dive into a heavily populated area’. How do Computers/ Programmers deal with that?
This is very easy and you don’t need any AI for that. A processing power equivalent to iPhone with pre-programmed aircraft performance and other relevant data input will make a decision in a split of a second with no element of guessing, as it will analyse about a few thousand possible scenarios and choose the best one, this is where computers are light years ahead of people.
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