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It is kind of nest how they have progressed, as well. It is sometimes little things that make a big difference. It iterative process, I suppose. Rolls Royce pr
by KGIII 9y ago
It is kind of nest how they have progressed, as well. It is sometimes little things that make a big difference. It iterative process, I suppose.
Rolls Royce prides themselves on hiring interns. The little cone piece in front of the jet engine had issues with icing up. This had plagued jet engines for years.
They tried all sorts of ways to fix it, including complex methods of supplying heat.
One of their interns just happened to hear about this problem and suggested they simply make it out of rubber. Sure enough, it worked and the problem with that pointy bit freezing was solved.
I'm sure it has a formal name and that it is probably not pointy bit or little cone piece. I don't actually know anything about jet engines, I just watched a documentary about Rolls Royce's jet manufacturing.
Anyhow, that wasn't something that could probably have been designed with first principles. Someone, pretty much in passing, pretty much had to have that creative spark at just the right time and with just the right information.
It's things like that story that make me think humans are going to be in the loop for a long time still and that AI taking over the world is still a long ways away.
- perilunar 9y ago>I'm sure it has a formal name Spinner.
- kortex 9y ago> It's things like that story that make me think humans are going to be in the loop for a long time still and that AI taking over the world is still a long ways away. I've found that the world continues to turn contingent on tremendous amount of what I call "dark wisdom" - crucial pieces of knowledge not found in any server, spec sheet, or manual. Usually inside the noggin of one or a few people. It just seems like a consequence of maintaining complex systems. In order for AI to fully take over, it would have to control and account for every corner case of every system, from mining the ore, to fabbing chips, to replacing wires chewed by rodents.