I think this is the point-contact transistor moment for AI systems: horribly impractical and impossible to scale at cost but shows the way: https://en.m.wikiped

I think this is the point-contact transistor moment for AI systems: horribly impractical and impossible to scale at cost but shows the way: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point-contact_transistor https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point-contact_transistor. But more than just AI research, the key to unlocking biological discoveries in a massive scale will be to be able to put systems like this (and other types of very cheap but solid bio equipment) in hands of tinkerers.