Originally Posted by
Check Airman
Computers, as we know them today are great at doing repetitive tasks and monitoring. Decision-making, no so much.
With all due respect, your "today" seems to be some two or more decades out of date.
These days, fr'instance, some 75% or so of trading of financial instruments on the major financial exchanges (USA, UK, Japan, Germany, etc) is done by "computers" (automated trading systems) and their "decision-making". And, interestingly enough, no calls from anyone to get rid of the computers and bring back the jackets, the shouting and the paper pads.
One aviation example that I've worked on is lost-contact recovery in ASW, where the system ("computer") does indeed project forward in time to see what
might happen and then make a "decision" based on future
possible outcomes.
Now, there is the occasional operator whose skill and intuition is "better" at times, but the system will - for the greatest part - outperform the human. And when it's not just one system, but cooperative systems with serious informational flows, the humans just cannot compete.
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