• Zacryon@feddit.de
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      To be fair, you don’t need a very huge 3D printer for that, if you divide it into a lot of smaller parts which can be assembled later.

      Idk, if we can already print steel though and whether we can make it structually sufficiently stable.

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        So our proposal is we prefab a bunch of metal pieces and assemble them on-site?

        As opposed to our current method where we carve bridges out of a big block of metal?

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          1 year ago

          Hahahaha absolutely. :D The difference is, that they come from a 3D printer and that’s cool.

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        And even then, the filament needed at this scale will take another several years, and a few days for shipping.

        Also, it doesn’t do well in sunlight or high humidity for prolonged periods of time, so we’ll need maybe 20 to 30 years to work out a solution for that problem.

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    1 year ago

    If the AI can design and build a bridge in two days, the AI should also be able to secure the finances in a day!

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    So uh… how exactly does a 3D printer use AI? Is the AI running the stepper motors? Or is this person actually suggesting that an AI could design a bridge? Because, uh, no. No it can’t. Maybe someday in the distant future, but large language models aren’t structural engineers. Those aren’t even remotely the same thing.