Alex Fink

When we do demonstrations in the West, we have to have a pilot on site to comply with local regulations, but that pilot doesn't actually have a controller.

So the pilot is on board of the drone itself.

Now, I should be cautious with the word AI because AI means different things to different people.

People immediately imagine ChatGPT running on the drones.

I don't believe drones need to think in natural language.

So all these entropic or ChatGPT discussions with regards to running on the drone, I think they're somewhat moot.

To me, drones think in much more compressed, much more specific terms.

There's no reason for them to think in English.

right and so the data we transfer between the drones is much more compressed every bit counts because the bandwidth of the radio is actually what determines the maximal size of a swarm i can have if the drones need to transfer more information to each other then i can have less drones in a swarm communicating with each other so and if i compress the data more than the size of a swarm can be larger

So from my perspective, AI in this case, the way we think about it is anything that can be rule-based is rule-based.

Anything that can be solved with if-then-else or with linear algebra is solved with linear algebra or if-then-else.

Only the things where machine learning is just the only working solutions will use machine learning.

But even then, we will bound it in kind of a small sandbox that is only asked one question.

What is the optimal path from A to B in 3D space?

That's an AI question.

Machine learning is good at that.

But there's no free thinking or logic here, right?

It's just answering a particular question.

The same thing with object recognition, the same thing with object tracking.

There are specific discrete questions that only machine learning can solve right now.