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CleaverIam OP t1_irsmcuz wrote

Reply to comment by AsthmaBeyondBorders in Have we reached a technological plateau? by CleaverIam

Fine, AI is improving. I will grant you that. Nothing revolutionary in the last decade though

>Just this week AI was one the front cover of Nature for improving 10 to 20% processing speed of matrix multiplications (aka the building blocks of computer graphics, physics simulations and AI itself) which wasn't improved on for 50 years.

How would it effect the end user though? It might be a scientific breakthrough for all I know but there is nothing in it for me.

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AsthmaBeyondBorders t1_irsnllg wrote

Just from the top of my mind videogames can add 10 to 20% more matrix multiplications without losing performance which may mean more objects per scene, more realistic physics simulations, more vertex and pixel shader calculations (more realistic lighting and textures).

If you call AlphaFold not revolutionary you don't understand what it means for a software to be able to do what would take an entire PhD dissertation in just some minutes. Protein folding is one of the most important bottlenecks in drug development for any disease

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CleaverIam OP t1_irsonbd wrote

A minor improvement on an existing technology but nothing revolutionary yet. Slightly better graphics aren't going to change my life in the slightest.

>If you call AlphaFold not revolutionary you don't understand what it means

I have not heard of this one. This one might actually be useful. But as an end user, I need the drugs, not the tools that make them. If it actually helps create new drugs then those drugs would be a big thing.

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AsthmaBeyondBorders t1_irspp4r wrote

Do you want people to be your personal guides? Pay me 20 an hour and I will google stuff for your lazy ass

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