Musk: Starship May Be Humanity's Last Giant Machine Built Without Superintelligence
XFreeze · x · 2026-11-15
Elon Musk, discussing Starship—the largest and most powerful rocket ever built—said it is pushing human intelligence and engineering to their absolute limits. He speculated that Starship might be the last giant machine humanity builds entirely without superintelligence (SI), implying future mega-engineering will be deeply AI-assisted. He added that one day SI will look back at human achievements and say, "Not bad for a human."
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