Aviation AI Needs a Shared Operational State Before It Needs a Bigger Model
TL;DR for operators AviationLMM1 is best read as a blueprint for how aviation AI systems might stop treating radio, surveillance tracks, telemetry, video, operational text, and sensor feeds as separate evidence streams. The paper’s central claim is architectural: before a system can reason across those inputs, it must encode each modality appropriately, align them across time, space, meaning, and reliability, fuse them into a coherent operational state, and only then generate task-specific outputs. ...