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>"AlphaFold can do in TEN MINUTES what a PhD dissertation required, fifteen years ago."

Quoting a PhD immunologist from Texas, who uses AlphaFold daily.



Agreed - and this is not in tension with my comment whatsoever.


Is that not the same as saying maths is solved thanks to spreadsheets/excel? All of science and technology is to some extent automation and increased speed of what used to be slow and laborious.


My sincerest response is that we are now post-moore's-law[1]; instead of "transistor density doubling every 18 months," I have (over the past year of Perplexity.AI) more of the belief that "global intelligence will double every 18 months."

Just my ¢¢ half-sanity.

[1] Isn't a single hydrogen diatom just 1nm wide? How much smaller can transistor gates be safely assembled? Didn't we physically stop getting physically smaller around 14nm?




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