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That is true, but breakthroughs in fields like Biology, Materials science etc. enabled by AI advances is what I was really excited about. May be we will see som

• rjsw 5y ago
  As someone working in the field, Materials Scientists are at the point where they have heard a description of what a computer is and they are trying to invent possible uses for one from scratch.
  • newyankee 5y ago
    Do you mean they were resistant to change, skeptical or have they finally found a reason to embrace new techniques due to proven success by their younger or more adventurous peers ?
    • rjsw 5y ago
      They have been resistant to change until now, but also seem unable to accept that people did think about the subject in the past, any plans that I see treat the whole subject of using computers for materials science as a completely new field. I added support for materials data to STEP over 25 years ago, they could just use software and data formats that are already available.
• franciscop 5y ago
  Lithium batteries were discovered 30+ years ago, and while there hasn't been a major breakthrough in the tech (a single-improvement that 2x+ it) if you look at e.g. prices they have been exponentially decreasing for the last 10 years, and now they are around 90% cheaper than 10 years ago. Make them another 50%-80% cheaper and e.g. ICE simply won't make sense. On Biology for example, isn't Covid19 vaccine and mRNA in general a huge breakthrought?