Posts about stuff relating to airports
#Blogathon 2023: The Month That Was ... Tough
Today is day 31, and the #blogathon has come to an end. The inspiration for this (mis)adventure was the release of ChatGPT, and, as a test, I thought I’d see if it could make my life easier. But, unfortunately, the short answer to that question is no.
Critical Review of (what was) Bird Strike Bot
Please note that Twitter killed the bot and then I deleted the account.
While in yesterday’s introduction of the Bird Strike Bot, I was proud of the work I undertook, with the help of ChatGPT, to build and deploy a Twitter bot, I still think it is worth taking a critical look at its first couple of weeks to see how well it is performing.
Short answer: 😐
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Introducing (and then farewelling) 🦅✈️🤖
Much of my excitement associated with ChatGPT came from my early experimentation and the “success” of our first actual project. I’ve posted a few times now about Python programming, and in December, it helped me take it to a new level.
‘Cause, we built a bot. And then Twitter killed it and then I deleted its account.
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Fast-Time Simulation: Visualisation & Making Decisions
I have only just touched the surface of this concept, and I am excited by its power, but it is time to wrap up this series on fast-time simulation. I’ve created a flight schedule, built an airport and subjected it to almost three years of punishment. Today’s post is a quick look at visualisation of the results and what decisions it could support.
Safety Policy Creation with ChatGPT: Moving From Writer to Editor
Every written safety policy has the potential to be something great and something genuinely disappointing. I have worked at and with airports where the safety policy was the foundation of good decision-making. I touchstone that anchored logical and just decision making. Unfortunately, I have also seen them treated with absolute disdain, sometimes by the senior manager who signed it. And while artificial intelligence like ChatGPT isn’t going to fix that, it might reset the relationship between its words and the safety manager tasked with writing it.
Fast-Time Simulation: Building an Airport
It’s Sunday night, and while I haven’t quite finished with my first foray into fast-time simulation, I am enjoying the process. Today, I set about “building” an airport for my simulation. To make sure it worked, I ran a simulation of one day’s flight schedule. ChatGPT has been here to help me, but, as I will discuss here and in the days following, it hasn’t been as big of a help as I had hoped.
Friday Funny: ChatGPT-generated Airport-themed Limericks
If that title interests you, then come on in!
Hitting the Limits of ChatGPT: Blogging & Background Research
Monday’s post, on SWA1248, was the only where I had started writing before I started this silly blogathon thing. It wasn’t completely written but I had kicked it off early in December with the strong idea that ChatGPT was going to help me write it. It didn’t work out that well.
Today, I want to do a quick review of that experience to keep the levels of excitement around the AI revolution in check.
Please don’t get me wrong, AI is coming and it’s coming fast. I saw a tweet the other day that said (in effect), “AI isn’t going take your job but someone better at using AI will.”
Effortlessly Summarise Videos with ChatGPT: Vertiports Edition
On the heels of my post on ChatGPT summarising incident reports, I wanted to highlight another summary workflow that is gaining traction, as well as a recent online webinar that included me. In early December, my CASA colleagues Joe Hain, Liam Smith and I held an introductory webinar on the draft Advisory Circular that just went out for consultation.
But maybe you were too busy to attend, and perhaps you’re still too busy to sit there and watch the video.
If this is the case, here comes ChatGPT to the rescue.
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Friday Funny: An Airport Love Story
As a generative natural language model, ChatGPT is good at writing. And thanks to its colossal training data set (something like the whole Internet up to September 2021), it already knows a lot of stories. Moreover, it is capable of writing in a multitude of different styles.
So, for a quick “Friday funny” post, please enjoy Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet re-imagined as an airport safety love story (no tragedy in this one).
AI-Powered Incident Report Summaries
Having mentioned this great new technology a few times, perhaps I should talk about what ChatGPT could do for you. Well, at it’s core, ChatGPT reads and it writes and that got me thinking about similar tasks I’ve had to do in the past. Reading incident reports and summarising them for my bosses came to mind almost at once. So, let’s test it out.
Introducing the 2023 Blogathon (with a little artificial help)
This is a terrible idea. I’ve got a lot to do right now but I’ve somehow convinced myself that this new technology (that is all the buzz) can help me do this. So, here goes…