We got AGI, pretty much, (it's artificial, it's general, and fairly intelligent by most standards), and in last few weeks, we might have room temperature superconductors, a cure for cancer, and now a cure for aging?
Can't help but wonder if there's a connection, lol.
The AI is neither intelligent nor General. The room temp semiconductor has not been replicated yet. The cure for cancer has been in pretrial for 20 years, and only now got accepted for phase 1 testing in humans (just checking is not posionous it has 0 results regarding efficacy). And understanding the mechanisms of inflamation is about as close to figuring out aging as figuring out amyloid plaques got us to cure Alzeihmers.
It is all super encouraging, and new scientific discoveries are exciting, but we are not there yet, and there is a big chance there is a science Winter coming straight after this Summer, and the AI one might be long as we have no new alternatives if the hype behind our current attempts fail
While I agree understanding inflammation is only the very beginning of a long, long journey, comparing it to amyloid plaques is disingenuous: the latter was literally outright fraud. There's no reason (yet, anyway) to think these researchers are literally fraudulent like the Alzheimer's researchers were.
> there is a big chance there is a science Winter coming straight after this Summer
Why? Pure regression to the mean? "Science" is an unfathomably vast enterprise and there's no reason to think a breakthrough in one or two areas must be followed by a quiescence in all others.
https://www.deepmind.com/blog/simulating-matter-on-the-quant...
That's something that people who dismiss GPT seem to forget.
Maybe it's all from there, lol.
Cure for cancer, cure for AIDS