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0 pointsEddy_Viscosity22y ago0 comments

But we didn't use airplanes to get there. It needed a new approach, different propulsion, different fuel, different attitude control, etc. etc.

LLM may be a necessary step to get to AGI, but it (probably) won't be the one that achieves that goal.

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auggierose2y ago

I doubt that LLMs will give us AGI. But they have already given us more intelligence from a computer than I would have imagined to see during my lifetime.

sbierwagen2y ago

I mean, if you go through the Apollo program contractors it's a who's who of aerospace. Boeing, North American Aviation, Grumman Aircraft, McDonnell Aircraft Corporation, Bell Aerosystems, Rocketdyne...

Electrical parts ran at aviation-standard 400hz. Aviation gyroscopes and aviation instruments. Structural parts made of aviation aluminum alloys. Astronauts that are all airplane test pilots. I can imagine doing Apollo from complete scratch (using car manufacturers that have to invent aluminum-handling tech starting from nothing) but it would have taken a lot more than the decade Apollo took.

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