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Winning a gold medal here will really be a leap forward for AI creativity and deep insight into problem solving.

AI already is already contributing in substantial ways to research.

What’s tantalizing here is this next level would take a huge step toward accelerating the pace of advancements in many fields.

It will be a milestone in moving past AI being a mere tool in scientific progress to something much greater.

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I sense you are a techno-optimist.

Maybe somewhat, but is anything I said that much of a leap?

Do you consider AI to have already considered substantially to the advancement of science?

For example AlphaFold, Weather forecasting, Algorithm optimization, etc

I believe the universe is a computer executing an algorithm. In fact, the universe is AI. This is a common belief among many techno-optimist church goers. People themselves are basically just numbers, aka algorithms, so future AI/numbers (people) will definitely contribute to scientific progress.

Are you serious?

edit: you’re either trolling or mentally ill. If it’s the latter, I sincerely apologize. Hope things get better for you soon.

edit edit: I saw your comments about the art project. Thank God. I didn’t want to live in a world where someone like that existed.

Techno optimism is good and should be the default. I wish a16z didn’t ruin that phrase. Techno optimism should evoke Star Trek, not Silicon Valley vibes

The inevitable endpoint is the same, abundance of all resources (almost vacuously) thanks to AI/numbers/people. It is not absurd at all to believe society can be regulated and managed by a large computer with the right software. Society, after all, is just a bunch of numbers, algorithms, and arithmetic. The communists tried to do this some time ago but they just didn't have a big enough computer with the right software (AI). They were on the right track and ironically their mission will be achieved by the capitalists doing nothing other than pursuing monetary profit.

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