Are Automatics , technology & AI ruining skills and the industry ?

[Pacefast]

My background is Aviation as a Captain past 27 years on corporate jets with an ATPL
I am trying to build a small drone business and am self taught in flying and editing to a good standard!

A week ago a young lady jumped out of a real estate sgents car. She took out a mini 4 pro took it vertically up to 30 / 40 feet and took pictures of a house !
Having a chat her knowledge was almost zero

Is technology and automatics making drones too easy to fly meaning potential work for skilled pilots is drying up ?

I can see on the editing side where AI is taking over editing skills That soon you will up load your footage and AI will churn out an edited version with timed music, Transitions intros etc all applied ?

I remember in General Aviation the Cirrus SR 20/ 21 with its BRS recovery and automatic safety features was ecouraging pilots to fly out of their skill levels, knowing that if they lost it at night or in cloud bad weather they only had to instigate the Chute
Engine failures where pilots practised forced landings into fields in event of engine failures were frowned on by Cirrus who now considered pulling the chute a better option than skills attempting an off field landing !

Be interested to hear others opinions on Drone technology , Automation and AiI removing the need for learned skilld ?

 

[Felix le Chat]

My background is Aviation as a Captain past 27 years on corporate jets with an ATPL
I am trying to build a small drone business and am self taught in flying and editing to a good standard!

A week ago a young lady jumped out of a real estate sgents car. She took out a mini 4 pro took it vertically up to 30 / 40 feet and took pictures of a house !
Having a chat her knowledge was almost zero

Is technology and automatics making drones too easy to fly meaning potential work for skilled pilots is drying up ?

I can see on the editing side where AI is taking over editing skills That soon you will up load your footage and AI will churn out an edited version with timed music, Transitions intros etc all applied ?

I remember in General Aviation the Cirrus SR 20/ 21 with its BRS recovery and automatic safety features was ecouraging pilots to fly out of their skill levels, knowing that if they lost it at night or in cloud bad weather they only had to instigate the Chute
Engine failures where pilots practised forced landings into fields in event of engine failures were frowned on by Cirrus who now considered pulling the chute a better option than skills attempting an off field landing !

Be interested to hear others opinions on Drone technology , Automation and AiI removing the need for learned skilld ?

Agree.

'AI' is making people lazy to the degree that it's no longer necessary to have any store of knowledge, or to actually think - just type in a badly worded query into one of the 'AI Assistants' built into most browsers and hey presto! a quick cut and paste and it looks like you're sophisticated and well informed.

Same with AI assistance with still photography and video... a few shots or video clips, no understanding of post processing or editing because you don't really need to have expended the mental effort to learn something and get better through trial and error.. a couple of mouse clicks and hey presto! it looks like you're a pro... give it a few more years and all you'll see is homogenised pap without a shred of style or individuality.

I thought technology was meant to elevate, not turn us into a load of push-button dummies.

 

[Pacefast]

>>I thought technology was meant to elevate, not turn us into a load of push-button dummies.<<<

As in Aviation Technology should enhance NOT replace SKILLS
Every day I see my editing program turn more and more AI and frankly fake
Just for fun I took one of my videos at the point I flipped from the drone with s transition to an underwater shot and added a White shark ! Very realistic but totally fake and I would never post that

 

[Kilrah]

Is technology and automatics making drones too easy to fly meaning potential work for skilled pilots is drying up ?

Yes and no... the low cost and ease means that (even doing everything right) it's cheaper for companies like real estate developers who want regular drone work done to buy a drone and hire someone to fly it than to hire an external company, that means it might be difficult to make a drone business, but you could be the one hired by a company to do their flying. So pilots maybe not - pilots wanting to also be entrepreneurs probably yes.

A service business makes sense when it requires tools and skills that are expensive and thus not justifiable for a single entity, it essentially drives the cost down by servicing multiple customers with the one expensive thing. Once it gets cheap and easy enough there's no reason to pool the resources anymore so everyone gets their own since that's cheaper than paying for a third party provider's business costs.