FLY AI: the role of artificial intelligence in aviation

Sign up here for GlobalData's free bi-weekly Covid-19 report on the latest information your industry needs to know. British mathematician and scientist Alan Turing first looked into computing intelligence in 1950. In a paper called "Computing Machinery and Intelligence", he suggested using a now-famous'Imitation Game' to test a machine's sentient capabilities, which eventually laid the groundwork for the development and discovery of artificial intelligence (AI). Decades later, AI and its subsets – machine learning and deep learning – are set to influence the future of many sectors, including aviation. Over the last few years, AI has found a wide array of applications in the industry – from ground handling services to airport security and air traffic management (ATM) – and there is now scope for more.