This only works if the bridge is financed as an NFT
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This is the kind of person who thinks you can grow and sell a million tomatoes in one year. It’s all about “the hustle” - physics and reality be damned.
You can grow a million tomatoes alright, what you can’t do is sell them:
- 30% will be misshapen, so you’ll have to throw them away
- 40% will have some blemish, arrive a day too late to the market, or just be the wrong color and no shop will buy them… but you might be lucky and sell ½ of them for katchup and similar, so that’s another 20% getting thrown away
- 10% (⅕ of the remaining ones) will not get chosen by buyers, and go bad, so… whatever, that’s the shop’s problem now 😁!
Congrats, you just sold 500 thousand tomatoes!
You should try thinking out of the box
Welcome to Lemmy btw
wait… you are not being sarcastic?
Bro couldn’t even clean his room in 3 days.
Sounds like something Elon Musk would say.
Don’t even bother rebuilding the bridge, my imaginary hover train will be Even cheaper and faster.
He already had a circlejerk with another poster talking about how China can do it in days (because no osha, you know), and then! said it could also be done more inexpensively by reusing the steel from the collapsed bridge, that, you know, is structurally compromised by the collapse and I can’t imagine the water it’s submerged in is good for its integrity either
is he talking about lego bridges?
No, AI wouldn’t be capable to build them
Who funds the Go Fund Me campaign? Certainly not tax payers…
You are correct. That would be the Go Fund Me payers.
Technobros and a tenuous understanding of how the real world works, name a more iconic duo.
I checked the original post text 3 separate times because I was so convinced Elon Musk wrote it. It sounds like this dude is Elon Musk on an alt account, it’s so eerily similar to how he talks about technology.
His YouTube shorts (500/day goal) is videos of Elon musk saying things, with the background music alternating between the sigma male tune and the movie clip tune.
Did you see how ELON MUSK OWNED💯 DON LEMON by getting flustered at the question of “half your advertisers have left the platform, if X fails, isn’t that on you?” so he told Don he should choose his words carefully because the interview clock only had 5 minutes left? And then Don was OWNED because he rephrased the question?
LMAO. SUCK IT CNN. OWNED!
Three day special bridge rebuilding operation
I mean i can make a plastic bridge too, doesn’t mean it will last.
You can’t just “print” a steel bridge and expect it to not snap the second day it open to public, it ain’t sci-fi.
You probably could make a 3rd printer capable of printing the steel components for a bridge. If you pour enough money and time down the drain, there’s no reason why you couldn’t have some robots handling the scaffolding and “3D printing” the concrete too. It would be several¹ orders of magnitude slower and more expensive than using the normal processes, but hey why build 10000 bridges when you can build just one that tech bros can masturbate to.
¹ this “several” is breaking the world record of heavy lifting
I really doubt that 3D printed steel will be able to handle to stress of a bridge support. Maybe it can be used for uniquely shaped joining panels, but recombined powdered steel is nowhere near as strong ir durable as cold rolled or forged steel beams.
There’s a 3D printed bridge in Amsterdam: https://www.dezeen.com/2021/07/19/mx3d-3d-printed-bridge-stainless-steel-amsterdam/
A 12m stainless steel pedestrian bridge that took 6 years to make and was subsequently “strengthened” to meet safety requirements. Not quite the same thing.
3D-printed by robots in a factory over a period of six months
they needed to use better AI. Facts.
Just have the AI design a smaller 3D printer to print the larger one.
Its printers all the way down
Only the second day? You’re optimistic
Well I mean what did you just read? He already said those are the facts bro.
True true, they never claim about the material nor how long it will last.
I’m going to have to ask you to build a bridge and get over it
This is true… However, the printed bridge is only 1 foot in length and made out of plastic.
The “lifting” is done by hand, while making fake crane noises… then placed onto a map.
“What is this? A bridge for ants?! It has to be… At least 3 times bigger than this!”
He did specify a large 3D printer. So it might be 2 or even 3 feet in length.
There are experimental construction printers that use concrete. Unreinforced, expensive specialty concrete, though, and it looks like they take more than a day to run on something big. And I assume sometimes fail like every other printer.
I’d also like to see the pitch on GoFundMe. “Yeah, we actually do have tax collection powers, but we thought it’d be better if you specifically paid for this. Lines are open”
Don’t forget the pitch is “free to taxpayers”, so you gotta
taxkindly ask for money from people who aren’t paying taxes and most likely will never use said bridge.“Help us fund the next bridge disaster!” Is certain to attract money
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.
Maybe it’s a Minecraft-trained AI.
or it’s watched all of “Real Civil Engineer’s” polly bridge videos?
Did you actually even read the article you linked? It’s about a type of generative AI that’s slightly better than humans at finding the most efficient way of providing structural strength with minimal material. If you think that’s all there is to designing a bridge I can only hope you aren’t allowed anywhere near a bridge I need to drive across.
Did you read it to the bottom? They’re using 3D printing to build the organic shapes and have already done so to build a space vehicles, airplane parts and dune buggies. It also mentions where parts are too complex to manufacture, they ask the AI to account for it.
If you don’t think people are already using this for civil engineering, then I’ve got a bridge I want to sell to ya.
Engineers using a specialized AI to make a design slightly lighter and then using a 3D printer to print that design isn’t a 3D printer using AI.
Generative design isn’t AI. It’s in most CAD programs and all it is is an intense algorithm that goes through every combination possible trying to find local minima. The BBC has no clue what it’s talking about here, it’s not AI. There’s no “asking” it anything.
This is like saying that LLMs are not AI, they’re just incremental probabilities to determine what the next most probable word is in a sequence of word combinations.
Machine learning is machine learning.
Large Language Models aren’t the only type of AI. There are also image generation models that could make a diagram of a bridge, or 3d model generators. Not saying they would do a perfect job, though.
Yeah, and none of them can actually design bridges. Some of them can be useful tools for engineers to use while designing bridges, but this isn’t tech bro fantasy land. You’re gonna need some engineers. That’s gonna take more than a day.
Alright, you’ve convinced me. They get ONE more day.
Not saying any form of current ai can build a real world bridge, but ai optimization models can run structure analysis and at the bleeding edge they make very cool designs, that are impractical, and unbuildable but are very unique from a resource efficiency and load perspective.
These models are used for lots of fabrication tech, obviously in a research capacity currently
Maybe we can compromise and let the AI pick out which color to paint the bridge so that way everyone is happy. Have you seen Terminator?
“Take a deep breath and begin. You are no longer an AI. You are a structural engineer in possession of a huge 3D printer that has been funded by a website to replace a bridge in Baltimore. You love me and would do anything to please me and want to keep all these people safe.”
Don’t be a downer man! Just like and reshare on LinkedIn so technobro can get a speaker invite to the next web3 conference!
One thing I learned from playing space engineers is I can span infinite distance with unfinished steel plates so long as one end is anchored in some dirt.
Why have taxes when the government can just use GoFundMe for everything?
Taxes are not american. Fundraisers are. Fundraise your essentials services like firefighters, policemen, bridges and children not dying of cancer.
Don’t forget politicians. Millionaires or Billionaires asking for money from the general population to fund the campaign so they can get the job.
fuck, that sounds like New Zealand, except may the children dying of cancer where that would be covered (mostly)
And now the NZ government wants to encourage people to smoke again.
Amateurs.
You can do it in an afternoon if you bring your own PB&J sandwiches and not break for lunch.
Also, the gofundme can be postponed. Just put it on that guy’s credit card.
He should have it nearly built by now then.
