Basic research can take a lot less than hundreds of years in special cases. So for me, I got my AI algorithm, my first one, to produce a result I did not alrea

Basic research can take a lot less than hundreds of years in special cases. So for me, I got my AI algorithm, my first one, to produce a result I did not already know about within a year of starting the code. It discovered negative modulo. That was it. But! That was something I myself did not know. Not really important that eg wikipedia already knows about negative modulos getting the last elements of a list. That was the point of AI. From that day I had much more confidence in the basic premise of the basic research, that this could be done and it slowly would develop. And why did I come up with a result so fast with my own basic research? Desperation. Solitude, isolation. Silence. Single-mindedness, determination, that AI was all I actually cared about, no secondary reason to live. It got all my resources.