[btown]

In all seriousness, it’s only a matter of time before an LLM makes a critical error in language-translating (or even being used to write) a reference manual for an industrial process, and escapes the attention of regulators. One can only hope that that process is not nuclear…

[fernmyth]

Hey, remember that time we used "an organic" kitty litter instead of "inorganic" kitty litter and the resulting explosion cost a half-billion dollars to clean up? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_Isolation_Pilot_Plant#20...

[johncolanduoni]

I’m not sure we’ll notice an increase of these kinds of things. There was a case well before AI where a process chemist replaced propylene glycol with ethylene glycol in over-the-counter medicine and a bunch of people died.