AI has now achieved the impossible — designing a deep-sea submersible safe enough for billionaires to party at the bottom of the ocean.
Billionaires have, for a few years now, been insisting that artificial intelligence is clever enough to take huge swaths of jobs while curing disease and solving the energy crisis.
As such, we presume that the loudest among them will be first in line to test out a super-safe submersible created by AI to avoid the sort of snafus that resulted in the Titan sub’s tragic implosion, which killed its creator and his four well-heeled friends while they were exploring the wreckage of another downed vessel, the Titanic, back in the summer of 2023.
On Bluesky, an enterprising AI enthusiast going by Keith Ng revealed that they had directed a chatbot — seemingly ChatGPT, from the look of the screenshots — to provide them with specs to create the world’s best and strongest deep-sea submersible.
Though the AI provided several caveats, including that the marine craft would have to „withstand extreme pressures, operate in total darkness, and perform useful scientific or exploratory tasks at the ocean’s deepest points“, it provided them with a detailed „mission profile“ and list of specifications for a „factory in Shenzin“ to construct such a sub.
