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> Regarding design, design is a peculiar thing potentially much more difficult to automate than a medical diagnosis because there is only emotion attached.

"Emotion" is not the reason companies still design airplanes and CPUs by hand.



True. Was for the cars. The other part holds for airplanes. By the way, I know of at least one case where a cpu algorithm steered the team on optimizing the resistance of a plane wing (or whatever needs to be optimized there, it was a conversation over beers). Example was that they never could have thought of that improvement themselves. Basically you had to be very stupid to try it as it couldn't work, until a spinoff (one of the millions of automated tries) actually did. CPUs I have no knowledge of.




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