Sunday, April 2, 2023

Planes in Formation, A-12 Shrike

The A-12 was a development of the A-8, the result of the decision by the United States Army Air Corps to standardize on air cooled radial engines. The addition of the radial engine did not improve the looks of the plane. Post on the A-8 here


 

2 comments:

  1. Not to do with this topic but, turns out your blog title is exactly right! Maybe you'll get the recognition you've deserved!......."They are calling for a six-month halt on the development of systems “more powerful” than that of GPT-4 - which can solve difficult problems with greater accuracy than previous programmes, thanks to its broader general knowledge and problem-solving abilities.

    Engineers from Amazon, DeepMind, Google, Meta, and Microsoft also support the pause concerns about a potential "risk to society".

    Developed by OpenAI, a company co-founded by Musk and now backed by Microsoft, GPT-4 has developed the ability to hold human-like conversations, compose songs and summarise lengthy documents.

    These AI systems are known to have “human-competitive intelligence” and as a result, could pose "profound risks" to humanity, according to the experts."

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  2. Yeah, like all advances in technology, its hard to say when is enough. burning coal? that will cause climate change-cbut has led to vastly improved conditions for almost all sectors of humanity. Atomic bomb? nasty side effects, but the only real viable (so far) way of getting away from burning coal and stuff for electricity. Internet, great- not counting the advertising model for income?
    Now AI?I think we have to actually try it before seeing whether it is really useful, evil or not.

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