<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Oct 21, 2026 at 1:56 PM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font size="4"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Wow, this guy is a freaking genius!<br>
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<a href="https://www.tomshardware.com/maker-stem/engineer-builds-tiny-3d-printed-single-motor-drone-in-their-bedroom-45-degree-hinged-rotor-and-sub-0-2ms-firmware-control-pitch-and-roll" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.tomshardware.com/maker-stem/engineer-builds-tiny-3d-printed-single-motor-drone-in-their-bedroom-45-degree-hinged-rotor-and-sub-0-2ms-firmware-control-pitch-and-roll</a>.<br>
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Seeing as most of the work in this is in the software, it makes me think that it won't be long before AIs can make things that we have no idea how they work. Not just maths proofs and software, but physical devices.<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I</span>f it wasn't for AI, I'd have said that Joshua Bird will never have a problem finding a job, but I'm not going to say that, because AI.</i><br></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>That is impressive!<span class="gmail_default" style=""> Thanks for posting this Ben.</span> There is a company called <span class="gmail_default" style=""> <a href="https://www.atomicmachines.com/" style="">Atomic Machines</a> that is trying to make something that they call a "matter compiler", if they are not successful then somebody else will be and then the distinction between software and hardware will get blurry.  </span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style=""><br></span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="">John K Clark</span></b></font></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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