for anybody wondering why airlines use curvy flight paths: it’s because most flight paths were made before AI

No way this isn't a joke, right?

AI does not believe in the round Earth hoax. 🤷‍♀️

Just for reference: https://www.greatcirclemap.com/?routes=LAX-CDG

Surprised how many people don’t realize this is satire

This reminds me of a Mad Magazine comic from the 1960s (or 70s I don't remember) that had a secret agent or someone like that use a computer to 'calculate the fastest route to his destination' and it drives him through every building in the city since that would be a straight line...

Some shit doesn't change.

Really shows the limits of AI. It’s orders of magnitude faster to go through the Earth.

I think you'd be surprised how many people can't comprehend this without showing them a globe lol.

What an idiot. It's an airplane obviously it has to fly up into the air and then down again

This is so wrong. The fastest route is going west from LA to Paris, because that will make you go back in time. By the time you land in Paris, it's the previous day!!

I suggest a better map projection.

So they're gonna build a tunnel through the earth the plane can fly through, to go in a straight line, right?

This path requires a plane with a drill head mounted on its nose.

It took me a minute too long to realize that the white parts of the map were land and the grey ones were water.

I need my morning tea before I keep scrolling...

Surely we should have AI pilots by now.

It would make all flights much faster...

Wow!

With AI you can be just as wrong as you are without it, but also destroy the earth and be told you're a good boy by a souless mechanism... Yay

This is fucking awesome thanks for sharing

ceo at posthog

Now that's a deep cut. I haven't heard the posthog meme in forever.

I feel like this is one of the things AI would actually understand. Since it a problem which is solved very frequently. AI would get tripped up by creative thinking.

Is it because they get shot down if they do a straight line?

It's like every so often people get this "revolutionary" idea of straight flight paths.

An AI was needed to draw a straight line? Like, map projection and curvature aside - he didn't do this himself with a map and pencil? Same revelation either way but this one was lazier.

anyone have contacts at Delta?

My dear brother in Christ, there's a reason that you don't

would be funny to make a map projection that made the great circle a straight line.

Pilot here. This man is a fucking idiot.

Normally I'd think this was satirical, but these days nothing surprises me.

Kind of tangential but what is posthog (in his job description)? Is it from Chapo Trap House or something? I used to see that all the time years ago on Reddit but I guess I was always on the outside of the inside joke.

AI is also flat earth dummy then

The direct route/line would be through the earth, though. Maybe Elon's boring company can do something about that. 😁

It is amazing with how little of knowledge and intelligence one can get a CEO job.

Probably because the ones who hired him were even dumber...

please be a joke

This is a joke from Cobra Kai

The earth is round and other things besides efficiency influence the decision of flight paths for example active warzones and malicious countries

Techbrah! Techbruh...

When is the next all life on Earth killing asteroid collision again?

Use this tool to make an azimuthal projection from your location. It's really trippy. It helps you better make sense of routes like these. https://ns6t.net/azimuth/

So...they managed to build an AI agent for flat-earth conspiracy?