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I had a variation of this meta conversation with my sister yesterday, and I pointed out that in addition to all of the attention-drawing advances in the news cy
by peteforde 3y ago
I had a variation of this meta conversation with my sister yesterday, and I pointed out that in addition to all of the attention-drawing advances in the news cycle, there's lots of under-celebrated stuff happening to be really optimistic about.
For example, researchers are using ML to discover new proteins, leading to new drugs and new construction materials. https://www.cradle.bio/ https://www.cradle.bio/ is doing amazing things in this space.
It's true that if you make a living as a drone operator selling stock footage, you might need to diversify. However, I am not worried for intellectually curious teenage creatives at this time.
- fragmede 3y agoML was used to modulate the magnetic field surrounding a nuclear fusion process! https://www.newscientist.com/article/2308243-deepmind-uses-ai-to-control-plasma-inside-tokamak-fusion-reactor/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/2308243-deepmind-uses-a...