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ace5762 t1_ja8rljs wrote
Reply to comment by rivalarrival in Eli5: why are some airplane jet engines under the wings and some on the vertical stabilizer? by Sad-Carrot-4397
Seems strange. If you have an engine failure in a 4 engine aircraft, why not just shutdown the opposing engine to match the thrust? Presumably if one of the wing engines failed in a trijet, it would be the same thing.
ace5762 t1_ja5xo7k wrote
Reply to So what should we do? by googoobah
It's worth acknowledging that the definition of 'The Singularity' is when an artificial intelligence is first able to produce an artificial intelligence that is more complex than itself. I'm not necessarily convinced we're in that region yet.
Natural language processors like ChatGPT and other machine learning tools are certainly set to drastically alter the landscape of a lot of industries in the upcoming years, but I struggle to see that these tools would produce The Singularity. Mainly because the basis of their intelligence derives from a statistical evaluation of previous knowledge. In a sense it's a case of repeating back what it believes the statistically astute answer to be, which leaves not a lot of room for apotheosis.
Then again.. humans created these tools from the basis of our observed knowledge so... hard to say. The real interesting stuff will probably start happening once AI tools are made that can incorporate multiple vectors of information on the same platform and draw decisions based on that.
ace5762 t1_ja9mlag wrote
Reply to comment by rivalarrival in Eli5: why are some airplane jet engines under the wings and some on the vertical stabilizer? by Sad-Carrot-4397
You kind of missed the point and just compounded on what I was saying- surely if the other engines and the control surfaces can compensate for the failed engine the rule you laid out makes even less sense?