Originally Posted by
Capn Bloggs
Tourist, you completely and utterly missed the point. I suggest you start thinking like a normal person instead of 01011010110 HAL. What sort of collection of cells programmed the airbus stall warning to silence below 60 knots? A human. Was that a silly idea? Yes. Machines are only as good as the human programmer.
Sorry, yes maybe I did miss the point, but I don't think that is my fault. If that is the point, it was poorly worded.
I don't think that "machines are only as good as the human programmer" is a clear way of making that point.
"Machines will still be imperfect if programmed by humans" is a better way of making the intended point, and I would agree.
That does not mean that they will not make
less errors than humans which is what is important.
You example of the stall warner is a good one.
It is an error that helped confuse pilots already having a problem.
Because it is a machine based fault, however, it can be fixed to
never happen again.
Human errors are sadly repeated ad infinitum...