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Episode 335 of the Transatlantic Cable Podcast kicks off with news that Apple are already preparing for a post-quantum world with their latest iMessage update. From there the team discuss criticism around Google’s ‘woke’ AI picture issues. 

Following that, the team wrap up with two stories, the first around Air Canada’s chatbot giving incorrect refund advice to a customer, and a spoon-bending magician says he was paid to create a fake Biden robocall.

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• Post-quantum iMessage: the next step in privacy protection
• Google to fix AI picture bot after 'woke' criticism
• Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline’s chatbot
• A magician says a Democratic op paid him to make the fake Biden call

A company is suing its own AI chatbot for providing misleading information to a client. I wish I could make up a headline from the future that was better than this - its actually a real story from February 2024 involving Air Canada. 

The practical lesson is that we need to be careful of automating our workforces, rather than augmenting them. People who use AI are better than people who don't. AI, though, is better when it is used by people than when it is left on its own.

Learn from Air Canada's mistake. 

Willie Gagnon, directeur général du Mouvement d'éducation des actionnaires,nous parle des demandes effectuées au fil des ans, pour faire changer les choses et rendre  plus transparents les c.a. de compagnies dans lesquelles nous détenons des actions... 

https://medac.qc.ca/

PUBLISHED: 20/07/2020
Has there been an industry more impacted by the Covid pandemic than the airline industry?

Tens of thousands of jobs slashed as Canadians stayed home instead of traveling. When the lockdown began, demand for air travel dropped in some cases by 90 percent. Slowly, the industry is moving forward. But it will look different to anyone who hasn’t been in an airport in the last few months. Only staff and passengers are allowed inside now. Distancing measures are in place as are temperature checks and face masks… But is that enough to get business back to normal?

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GUESTS:
Karl Moore - Associate Professor, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University

Gábor Lukács President - of Air Passenger Rights

Anthony Norejko President and CEO at Canadian Business Aviation Association

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REFERENCES:
https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/air-travel-recovery-in-north-america-will-be-years-in-the-making-insiders-say-1.4921357

https://www.skiesmag.com/news/business-aviation-analysts-predict-v-shaped-recovery-after-sharp-drop/

https://www.fr24news.com/a/2020/05/struggling-canadian-airline-industry-pushes-for-government-bailout.html

https://biv.com/article/2020/03/canada-dodging-repatriation-chaos-experts-say

https://financialpost.com/financial-times/a-cataclysmic-situation-aviation-industry-prepares-for-sweeping-changes-in-post-pandemic-travel

https://globalnews.ca/news/7178604/coronavirus-exposure-canadian-flights/

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/at-least-26-flights-have-arrived-in-canada-with-covid-19-cases-in-last-two-weeks-1.5024278

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/flight-rules-canada-airlines-pandemic-1.5633671

https://globalnews.ca/news/7113512/air-travel-industry-coronavirus-new-reality/

https://www.travelweek.ca/news/we-asked-air-canada-answered-domestic-demand-middle-seats-refunds/

https://www.travelweek.ca/news/ready-for-takeoff-a-look-at-flying-during-covid-19/

https://canada.greekreporter.com/2020/07/19/air-canada-to-resume-international-flights-to-athens-greece/

https://www.thenational.ae/business/travel-and-tourism/travellers-confidence-slips-amid-fears-of-catching-virus-iata-says-1.1045998

https://www.iata.org/en/pressroom/covid-19-news/

https://calgaryherald.com/business/local-business/westjet-layoffs-could-be-just-the-beginning-without-federal-aid-for-airlines-experts-warn

https://www.canadianlabourinstitute.org/story/air-unfair

Flights with confirmed cases of COVID-19 keep landing in Toronto's Pearson Airport, and the federal government is keeping track. An award-winning wine bar and restaurant in Yorkville is closing permanently. Plus, Lynn MacNeil and Will Munro opened The Beaver in 2006, and operated as a safe space that celebrated queer identities for 14 years. Now, the beloved Queen West bar, restaurant, gallery and club is shutting down.

Josh and Kurt talk about a huge working from home experiment because of the the Coronavirus. We also discuss some of the advice going on around the outbreak, as well as how humans are incredibly good at ignoring good advice, often to their own peril. Also an airplane wheel falls off.

Show Notes

• Work from home Hacker News discussion
• CDC advice
• How to wash your hands
• Air Canada flight without running wather
• Airplane wheel falling off

77 Twenty Things your CFI Didn’t Teach You as a Student Pilot, NTSB Report on Air Canada 759 SFO Incident + GA News.

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Twenty Things your CFI Didn’t Teach You
Listeners share stories about things they wished they had learned as student pilots, but had to figure out for themselves as Private Pilots. Here's my list of those items.
1. How to Prepare for a Flight Review
2. Using Clearance Delivery, approach and departure control
3. Complex and High Performance Endorsements
4. Checking Out in Other Airplanes
5. Flying in the Mountains
6. The dangers of flying at Night
7. It Can Happen To Me
8. Flying at Night without a Moon
9. Renting a Plane at another Flight School
10. Planning Entries to Airports with Multiple Runways
11. Managing Descents
12. How to Buy a New or a Used Airplane
13. How to Conduct Flights so Passengers will want to fly with you again -- "Fly the plane like you have 100 passengers in back who you want to come back."
14. What to do if you’re ramped checked by the FAA 15. What to do if you’re given a phone number to call
16. Part 134 ½ charter operations
17. If you’re going to hit something while taxiing, hit something cheap!
18. How to Use Self Serve Fuel
19. How to Hear a weak signal on the radio; what to do when you Center or Approach gets so weak you can no longer hear them.
20. How to disconnect the Hobbs Meter before you fly, and how to remember to Reconnect it after the flight!

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Mentioned in the Show
Cirrus Migration 16 Event - Las Vegas, October 11-14, 2018
AOPA's Rusty Pilot's Online Presentation
Private Pilot's Chronicle blog article - Lost Luggage
Max Interviewed on SimpleFlight Radio podcast
Conducting an Effective Flight Review

Videos
Houston Hobby SR20 Traffic Pattern Accident
Midair Collision: Piper Cherokee vs. Robinson R22 Helicopter

News Stories

• • Long Island flight instructor involved in deadly 2016 plane crash arrested
  • FAA Publishes New Settlement Policy for First-Time Violators of Drug, Alcohol Testing Requirements
  • Used Skyhawks a Hot Item
  • Night-flying by fire agencies in California gains interest as state's wildfire threat grows
  • NTSB Report on Air Canada 759 Taxiway Incident at SFO
  • Pay only when you fly insurance launched
  • Should the U.S. Air Force Bomb Forest Fires?

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Hello, 2Babe's Listeners!

This week we dive into what is big data, and how that data has been used in the supply chain industry today. 

Joining our 2Babe's hosts, we have a special guest in Vito Cerone, Sr. Director of Sales and Commerical Strategy, teaming up with us to explain how his company is currently implementing data into their ongoing operations and network, and how the industry outlook is looking when referring to the air transportation. 

Within this podcast, Vito also talks to our hosts about his vision for the future of the industry and how he believes that both eCommerce and drones will have an impact on the future of transportation as a whole. 

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