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Why don't you have that AI read all manuals not just construction ones. Also all legal texts, all medical texts and all computer texts. It could optimize everything!

/sarcasm

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> The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourself, video recorders watched tedious television for you, thus saving you the bother of looking at it yourself; Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe.

From "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" by Douglas Adams, for anyone curious to read the whole story: http://theelectricmonk.com/ElectricMonk.html

You joke, but that is a great idea. IBMs Watson was helpful to doctors by being able to reference huge amounts of medical literature. Basically a domain specific natural language search engine. I've read about similar software for lawyers searching for relevant laws and cases.

The AI doesn't need to be so good it can replace the doctor/engineer/lawyer. It just needs to be a helpful tool for finding relevant documents. NLP and QA is just starting to get good and available to the public, so I think this will be a big thing soon.

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