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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.

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)