As a software Developer (and inactive pilot) I am not that worried about Chart’s muscling in on either environment soon though were it to take over some jobs, lawyers would be a good start.
I also was curious about it’s judgement capability, but I started with giving it a current METAR for GSP when we were down to 400 ovc and 1.5 visibility. I asked what type of approach would it chose given that information (flying a Cessna 172) and it came back with “a visual approach” which didn’t seem correct. I prompted with would you use an ILS approach in a light plane and it still liked a visual. I’m not IFR rated, but it seems that visual was not right.
So, Chart is not perfect, I sure don’t want it making decisions and as far as coding is concerned, while it did beat @ 50% of programmers in a contest the coding problem was not that complex.
My biggest concern is that the more people turn to the “quick” answer, the less smart we become collectively. I am reminded of the SFO accident with (Asiana(?)) airlines where two fairly experienced pilots flew it into the breakwater at the end of the runway because they could not see, not had not flown a simple hand flown visual approach on a clear day. The company pushed using the software in the panels, preempting the software behind the eyes.
if it becomes too easy, it becomes less interesting, and while the ideal is to “free up humanity”, what do we do with all those freed up people? This is not a horse and buggy being replaced by a horse less carriage case as the buggy driver can learn to drive a car. This is removing the driver from both…I’d like to see if ChartGPT can solve that problem.