MARK BARNES | We don't have to surrender to robots
Computers may be good at playing chess, but that's not because they're clever
10 October 2021 - 00:00
Somewhere between being informed that "We're commencing our descent" and his "Ten minutes to landing" instruction to the crew, the pilot said he was obliged to tell us that we were going to do a fully automatic landing. But "we'll keep a close watch on things", we were assured...
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