Air traffic control uses AI

THE DETENSE Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has given the green light to the use of artificial intelligence to automate military air traffic control.

Boffins working at Lockheed Martin's Advanced Technology Laboratories have developed the Generalised Integrated Learning Architecture (GILA) system.

According to Network World, the system, which costs $22 million, is designed to keep air space operating safely with increased air traffic. It will even track and control unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and other airborne weapons which you do not want flying into 747s on their way to Heathrow.

GILA learns flight controllers’ tasks and then can help control flight paths. The software assembles knowledge from different sources and can reason its way through some situations.

The software can fill in holes in data by using whatever information or reasoning is available.

However it is not as good as a well trained human. It can outperform a novice by 125 per cent claims Lockheed. If you are a novice to start with that gives you an "embedded, accelerated training capability", which is all you need from life really.

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