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I think the novelty here is in the automation of it? If you (or let's be real, some eccentric billionaire) set up 100 of these and hooked them up to run 24/7, t
by foota 3y ago
I think the novelty here is in the automation of it? If you (or let's be real, some eccentric billionaire) set up 100 of these and hooked them up to run 24/7, they could generate a stream of test results. If you can scale this up maybe you'd hit economies of scale?
Shame there's no eccentric billionaires that love shiny projects with little hope of success. /s
- dekhn 3y agoThis is already happening all over the world across multiple industries. It's typically called lab-in-the-loop. I have been involved in projects with eccentric billionaires to build such things. It's challenging to make forward progress in a meaningful way (IE, beyond a press-and-paper prototype), and often the reasons are entirely banal and provincial (many scientists in the field feel threatened by ML and automation; others just don't know how to work in a large-scale environment, others want to come up with the perfect experiment yet never actually run one, and even others want to use the automater as a quick-turn-around, not economy-of-scale tool. Further, just getting the necessary support infra to make the system run well can often be quite challenging.
- sooheon 3y agoYou say it's challenging, are you implying there are actually any successful instantiations running at scale?