AI is learning to fly airplanes — and aviation is starting to embrace it

By Pete Muntean, CNN Quonset State Airport, Rhode Island (CNN) — The small Cessna Caravan accelerates down the runway and climbs into the air, all while the pilot beside me keeps his hands off the controls. “Let’s see those jazz hands,” jokes Tim Burns, chief technology officer at startup Merlin Labs, over the airplane’s intercom The post AI is learning to fly airplanes — and aviation is starting to embrace it appeared first on News Channel 3-12.