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Progress has slowed down because we solved all the easier problems that we could with the human mind. Now technology is catching up to give us the computing po

• fellowniusmonk 5y ago
  Agree. I think people really underestimate how many intractable "needle in a haystack" problems are now tractable due to RNNs, CNNs and other ML/ai stuff. We are still in the early days of applying that tech to the fields it's going to effect most. We're in the "get a home page for your local business" phase not yet the "faang has changed the face of civilization" (for the better or worse) phase. This is going to continue to ramp knowledge in bioinformatics and other areas, the technology is still in the infancy of being harnessed for biology and medicine. That combined with cheaper robotic arms and cheaper sequencing machines which is just now coming dropping below certain cost thresholds. (I know a group/lab that's automating discovery of drug/compound targets doing purely NDA'd work for merck and other pharmaceuticals, the tech is wild and still in it's infancy.) Cutting edge voice and image style transfer, realistic computer speech, computer vision.. the list goes on, that's just the highly visible stuff and there is still only a small pool of people versed in those areas of tech.