There are PetaBytes of important scientific data locked in archival file formats. The first step is to make this efficiently readable.
I’ve been reading this sentiment on HN since GPT4o, yet models got better and better
[1] https://www.synbiobeta.com/read/anthropic-is-hiring-biologis...
Sounds like the oil scare from 90' - we thought we were gonna run out of oil. But as oil gets more expensive it pays to dig further down to find the stuff that didn't make sense to dig up before.
A limited amount; for each barrel burned to power the drilling we used to get 100 barrels back. Now we need to build a floating oil rig, drill kilometers down, build tanker ships and long pipelines, each barrel burned digging for oil gets 20 back. Or 10. With tar sands and fracking, the return is 3 to 5 barrels back.
As that ratio dwindles towards burning one barrel to get one barrel, the oil-based world economy slows, gets more expensive and comes to a halt even if there is more oil down there. (About 50 years of oil left at current world oil extraction rates).
LLMs will obviously keep getting incrementally better, but in order to get the kind on jump that LLMs themselves were, the sentiment is that we need something more.