IAS Seminar "Can AI pass the exam for human pilots?"

Speaker:

Dr. Luuk van Dijk, Daedalean AG, Zürich, Switzerland

Abstract:

It is beginning to look feasible to build computer systems that outperform the human pilot on all tasks in the cockpit, including creative ones like making the judgement call ’can I land here?’ based on visual input. The next interesting challenge then becomes to prove these AI applications are safe to the incredibly high standards of airworthiness, where acceptable fault rates of 10^-9 per flight hour at the system level are not uncommon. We propose to approach aerospace certification by systematically identifying and bounding uncertainty in the design and application of deep convolutional neural networks and present some methods of engineering to meet those bounds.

Luuk van Dijk was invited by Prof. Kristel Michielsen (JSC).