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All Hail the Robotic Farmers and Pilots of the Future

If algorithms make pilots safer, will they affect post production?

All Hail the Robotic Farmers and Pilots of the Future http://t.co/dlOM5NXM

A very interesting article on the increasing computer algorithm use to make landings and take-offs safer:

Fighter pilot Mary “Missy” Cummings saw it coming while landing her F/A-18 supersonic jet on a Navy aircraft carrier — the world-changing disruption barreling toward the present.

Instead of landing the multi-million-dollar machine on the small deck of the ship herself in the 1990s, a computer accomplished the tricky feat for her.

“Here the computer was taking off better than I could, landing itself better than I could and doing the mission better than I ever could,” Cummings said Tuesday during the Wired Disruptive by Design business conference. “It was really humiliating. That was what used to make me better than everyone else.”

Missy Cummings chose to get on the side of the robots:

For now robots and humans seem to perform better as a team. “Humans are doing a pretty good job, but they do it even better with the assistance of algorithms,” she said. “This research … is really showing the power of how, when algorithms work with humans, the whole system performs better.”

I think that’s where I am with the application of algorithms to post production and transmedia: they make the work of the editor/storyteller easier, while letting those people add the human element to the project.

Certainly, there’s no way we can produce Television at the rate we need to for The Solar Odyssey Challenge without some automatic application of metadata.