Korean Engineers Unveil ‘PIBOT’ the ChatGPT-Powered Robotic Pilot of the Future

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This is “PIBOT” and it could be piloting an airplane in the relatively near future. It’s a humanoid robot that doesn’t need a special cockpit or require different instrumentation than a normal pilot, and it can interact with any and all flight controls with its robotic arms. Veuer’s Tony Spitz has the details.

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00:00 This is what its developers call "PiBot" and it could be piloting an airplane in the

00:04 relatively near future.

00:05 The humanoid robot doesn't need a special cockpit or require different instrumentation

00:09 than a normal pilot, as it can interact with any and all flight controls with its robotic

00:13 arms.

00:14 Its artificial intelligence can even read flight manuals of different aircraft, meaning

00:18 it's sort of plug and play, doing so using chat-GPT tech.

00:22 And its developers at the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology say, it

00:26 might soon be even better at doing its job than a human pilot.

00:30 Here's engineering professor at CASE, David Hyuncheol, to explain.

00:34 Human pilot is great at understanding the context and handling the complex situation,

00:40 but they often fail to remember very detail of the flight manual, especially when they

00:47 are in trouble.

00:49 So our pilot is capable of understanding and remembering everything, literally everything

00:55 in the manual, and then they can execute without any kind of emotion or panic, especially during

01:04 the emergency situation.

01:06 He adds they can do all of that in a matter of microseconds.

01:09 That's compared to an aircraft owner's and pilot association magazine breakdown of pilot

01:13 reaction times.

01:14 According to that, it takes on average around 6.1 seconds for human pilots to assess and

01:19 react to another aircraft on a collision course.

01:21 Other researchers add that unlike conventional autopilot, which can only steer and adjust

01:25 the speed and altitude of a craft, pi-bot has complete control.

01:29 So now only one question remains, would you trust an AI pilot over a human one?

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