Google SWE points 48 AI agents at NASA Lidar, finds unmapped Maya pyramid in 72h

Re:Google SWE points 48 AI agents at NASA Lidar, finds unmap... by mercer on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @08:19AM (#50453081)

Now I'm curious if anyone has or might try to create an LLM that lacks all knowledge of the post-einstein/newton/plato world and see if it can figure things out. I imagine lack of training data would be a problem, but maybe it could be a way to reverse-engineer an effective prompt that can give us insight in the platos of our world?

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Re:Google SWE points 48 AI agents at NASA Lidar, finds unmap... by leereeves on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @08:28AM (#50453158)

> I imagine lack of training data would be a problem

I imagine that's an understatement. Using only the written works available from before Einstein (let alone Newton or Plato), you'd probably need a whole new technology that could train itself without any training data other than observation of the world.

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Re:Google SWE points 48 AI agents at NASA Lidar, finds unmap... by dist-epoch on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @09:16AM (#50453707)

arguably it is feasible in principle to filter out that knowledge from later writings, but you can always say it leaked in a subtle way - "this chonky cat is bending space around it" (this is exaggerated, can be much more subtle and hard to notice)

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Re:Google SWE points 48 AI agents at NASA Lidar, finds unmap... by StilesCrisis on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @08:29AM (#50453170)

Wouldn't it need a way to run physical experiments?

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Re:Google SWE points 48 AI agents at NASA Lidar, finds unmap... by criddell on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @08:56AM (#50453478)

They would need to be much better at learning. You can teach a child how to drive a car and they can be good enough at it that the state will grant them a license to drive.

Where's the learning robot that I can teach to drive a car in the same way? They can solve some complex math problem but can they read the cues of other drivers at a four way stop to know when they should go (knowing the rules isn't sufficient).

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