How AI is revolutionising science

[@DarkSnideoftheRainbow]

Quick maths- At 12:00 he says it did 700 experiments in 8 days. That's approximately 30,000 experiments in a year or 120,000 in 4 years. He said that a student wouldn't even be able to do 700 during that same time period. That's something like a x200 increase in volume of experiments. An increase in that level of magnitude isn't just game changing, it's revolutionary.

[@tesla6422]

Only if the number of whatever they're calling "one experiment" is the bottleneck.

[@DarkSnideoftheRainbow]

@@tesla6422 Well I mean I'm literally basing this off of 2 sentences in a quarter hour youtube documentary, not exactly the best data points to go off, of so I figured I'd keep estimations a bit on the cautious side. Obviously this tech is going to get better and more efficient over time, that's the whole point of machine learning in general. I just wanted to throw out a rough estimate to help people conceptualize just how much faster even this very early stage is.

[@damori3604]

People are all so scared of AI, but I'm honestly so excited for the future! 😅😂

[@Seriouslydave]

Because ai will never hate humans, we dont impact its existence, we created it, and we are giving it everything it needs, its humans that will use ai to hurt other humans that we should be worried about. 100 million years of evolution and survival, we cant shake the impulse to compete or defend, in 1000 years.

[@jayplay8140]

Lets hope your position isn't made redundant

[@null-0]

People use AI for all the wrong reasons. Of course people are worried. I can stand by Medical and Environmental uses, HOWEVER, generative AI is made to f with people that are barely making minimum wage.

[@KAIZENTECHNOLOGIES]

​@@null-0if you're still unaware of how to adapt to AI progress, it's your fault and you deserve to be disrupted

[@claytonjames4779]

​@@jayplay8140open up happening is people that lose their jobs will lose it to another human being that spent the time learning new skills and has the proficiency to use AI tools. So robots aren't going to take our jobs another human with AI tools will

[@cstnfacu]

Finally an Economist video with 16:9 format!

[@edwinndirangu659]

AI might be a gamechanger to helping discover cures for rare diseases that big pharma find unincentivizing due to minimal profit margins vs upfront costs.

[@charlessmyth]

As per the pill-popping economy, that is worth Trillions to the US and European economies, Big Pharma exists as a way to maintain a willing public to pay a global tax for longer :-)

[@CurioCity-Curiosity]

Yep

[@tjs200]

but if its useful enough couldnt they just charge more for it? Why would they purposefully not sell a cure they found for some rare disease?

[@ぶ乙]

The problem here is some tropical diseases researches like malaria just don’t get enough funding because of, well money. The main funding for these research areas are trusts and donation, not industry where the money are. Industry doesn’t want to fund these reasearches especially foundational parts meaning we just can’t find the cure. Sure they’ll sell the cure if they have it, no incentive not to. But there’s no incentive unfortunately to find the cure. My prof had to change his research area because of this.

[@CurioCity-Curiosity]

@@tjs200 other comment exactly. They would sell the cure for sure, but likely not fund research to FIND it

[@supremereader7614]

Amazing the AI robot doing chemistry. We're really going into a whole new world. Thanks to the Economist for being real with AI instead of most legacy media that just wants to sneer at this amazing tehnology that will likely out compete them.

[@khalidamir3061]

Let's pray and hope that AI changes World for the better😊

[@ClaimClam]

lol

[@jansoltes971]

Do you realize that most problems in this world are caused by spiritual misery like human greed? Human greed, for example, leads to exploited working classes, enslaved and tortured animals, environment destruction, civilisation diseases, etc. Yes, AI can help. But people should, in the first place, start to "cultivate their inner universe". They must start to live meaningful lives and run societies in a manner that is more just.

[@Withnail1969]

It won't because it doesn't exist.

[@thederpydude2088]

​@@jansoltes971 I kind of agree with you, but how do you mean that human greed is spiritual misery?

[@saftheartist6137]

Thank you Technology and AI 🤖 I’m very proAI and proTech!

[@jebbo-c1l]

Pretty funny that the first thing the Israeli researcher says is "Welcome to my colony"

[@aguspuig6615]

Cant even exist as a jew anymore

[@maxsmith4234]

at 3:50 he says you can generate the needles instead of looking for a needle in a haystack. Thats is the perfect way the phrase it. Many times, traditional research is trial and error, constantly tweaking and looking for the right answer to one problem. AI in this field can basically just help generate the answers

[@TracyVang-d9e]

dopepics AI fixes this. AI revolutionising science, Economist reports.

[@hugh261]

Interesting that the robots don't just replace their battery pack rather than having to shut down in order to recharge.

[@jessehachem2779]

$$$$$ hahahaha more parts

[@kby-64-b]

Wow the lab robot looks cool. In an analytical chemistry lab there are lots of tedious jobs, it would be interesting to see if the robot can keep on improving and do most of the manual work

[@davidtindell950]

thanks for presenting !

[@hacked2123]

That wolf was communicating that it wanted to know where it's pack was. Kinda sad and lonely tone to it's voice, like "you [pack] come home now"

[@nathxdantas]

Super model. Big data and ethics

[@shaan702]

Would love to see AI doing all the double checking of experimental results that doesn’t really get done now because you need to have novel, exciting ideas to get research grants.

[@aguspuig6615]

TRUE. Imagine the amount of amazing advancements that are laying on unverified papers because ''lets find another particle'' is taking all the man hours

[@gregormobius]

This could be an interesting proposition: Gregor Mobius- "Proto-RNA, the First Self-learning Machine"

[@0o0ification]

People will definitely need to be focused on peer review, for the near future. Preliminary results need scrutiny now, more than ever.

[@tonipwneroni9846]

"Delve" as a verb in English will both become increasingly mlre common in our literary culture, but become extremely scarce in spoken English, i think.

[@rafeddinnecefli6680]

Please ,share more videos

[@philforrence]

Great vid!

[@thesimplicitylifestyle]

We must optimize and automate all processes from discoveries, to use cases, to products and services, to consumers, and back to discoveries. 😎🤖

[@GrowStackAi]

Data-driven decisions start with AI 💥

[@user-tx9zg5mz5p]

We need cures, not drugs. Oh yeah, there's no money in cures.

[@kuyab9122]

Drugs cure diseases. By cure do you mean alternative, like herbals and oils?

[@jackpeters4930]

You’re really showing your ignorance here. Drugs cure many things, maybe u should’ve gone to school.

[@kuyab9122]

@@user-tx9zg5mz5p Your one of em mystical ones huh?

[@user-tx9zg5mz5p]

@jackpeters4930 🤣

[@aguspuig6615]

@@jackpeters4930 Its a way of speaking, the message is clear. Drugs are more asociated with chronic forever treatments instead of permanent cures. You take painkillers or anti biotics to beat infections, but a vaxxine makes you inmune.

[@maxsmith4234]

this is why I'm trying to get a few AI classes in during my undergraduate

[@lshj82]

So what exactly has been the results? Done with help from AI???

[@BatsiraiMusuka]

14:39 humans will always find a way to input evil intents into tech. It’s a zero sum game really

[@ThomasNuggets-l9m]

Exciting times!

[@deeplearningpartnership]

Game changer.

[@Naidu-k8m]

Great to know that AI is not the monster many claimed it to be

[@ENI_Omega]

Weird time to be alive

[@Max12-p]

change so fast !!!! Looking forward to the surprises AI will bring in 2025.

[@bernob9770]

The new age of science thanks to AI!

[@urbanstrencan]

AI could really help in science, making faster new discoveries

[@mxmzry]

NVIDIA

[@yourebreakingmyballs4787]

yes, Nvidia

[@kkfoto]

10:14 *"Conciousness"* ? Ask ChatGPT to write your titles and avoid typos 😂

[@2litresofmercury]

Trying to solve the climate crisis with AI seems like a paradox. My mate Jevon would agree

[@aguspuig6615]

Any sort of research will cause some sort of pollution. The question is if theres a net benefit

[@1010Analytics-io]

Gamechanger

[@andrewmatthews1705]

I don't want to be negative, but related to health, couldn't we focus on life style interventions, instead of just always trying to solve problems with drugs.

[@BigBoiiLeem]

As promising as this is for medicine and other fields, let's be clear that we already have all the science and technology we need to solve world hunger and put a massive dent in climate change. We just need to, y'know, grow a spine and do it.

[@hugh261]

At the expense of feeding the asset hording syndrome of the ultra rich? Lol.

[@BigBoiiLeem]

@hugh261 you're gonna have to explain yourself better than that, dude

[@tjs200]

those arent the only two problems in the world?

[@BigBoiiLeem]

@@tjs200 My point is that people are deferring action on these problems because they're saying AI will bring new advances that it may or may not bring, and that we don't even need. Are you being intentionally thick? Or is it congenital?

[@aguspuig6615]

Yep, not to speak of smaller more managable problems that mostly affect us in first world countries. Let this sink in, not only could we make the world as a whole a way better place, we could make the first world into paradise, if only we grow a spine and do it.

[@mikeshafer]

I think AI is going to help detect cancers in people years before they become lethal. Bring it!

[@jansoltes971]

Sure it will help. But have you ever wondered why some countries have way lower cancer rates than others? Even if high age and genetics are filtered out? Give it a thought.

[@ericsynchrona5495]

You can turn on as many lights as you want in the beginning of your video, however your first job is to destroy things...

[@charlessmyth]

There's a lot of hedging via could, maybe, might . . . :-)

[@Rockyzach88]

Why robots when you can just rearrange the lab for better automation?

[@FatikhinSalim]

We are still the best OI

[@CUMBICA1970]

Okay AI just save Jimmy Carter. AI: "Oh plz. I can have a nice chat and that it."

[@Marinealver]

Okay AI, tell me how we can reach velocities beyond c? No answer, alright I guess we still have to figure that out for ourselves.

[@ALavin-en1kr]

It likely will not know more than humans know and program it with. It will be a source of information and can likely replace having to do research as it comes up with an answer at once. It can connect the dots but I very much doubt that it can come up with the dots.

[@FermentedOuroboros]

"No answer" bro your in a KZbin comment section

[@tesla6422]

So robotics and doing statistics with computers is now called AI?

[@MatthewPendleton-kh3vj]

Always has been. *pew*

[@tjs200]

"doing statistics with computers" is what machine learning is.

[@Apjooz]

Just to make you angry, yes.

[@kuyab9122]

I'm interested to your definition of AI. Do tell us.

[@cartoonlovers2782]

7:18 : Occupied Palestine ( That is also a problem AI or Humanity someone needs to Resolve)

[@aguspuig6615]

Hamas should remove ''killing all jews'' from its list of stated goals. Didnt need a supercomplex AI to figure that one out

[@rogerc7960]

..so far

[@s1gmap175]

maybe ai can be used to fight corruption

[@jansoltes971]

How? 😂

[@maeljegu8324]

bro what is this, i dont think enough research is done in alignment to human values, to valuing human interference and updating software. So ai might achieve these goals, but what will it destroy as a result? All this is awesome if we are able to stop ai, if it goes too far in our opinion and the ai doesn't see our opinion as an obstacle it needs to learn to navigate around to achieve its initial goal. Because sometimes, we don't see the cost of achieving a goal until we start the journey.

[@ralffig3297]

Oh man.. what s going to happen when people see the consequences of trusting results of a glorified regression.... what can go wrong.

[@AnneTindal]

AI finds the patterns in complex systems. Based on what is already tested. Results of which always need to be checked for false correlations and it making up data. **It does not have imagination.** extrapolating new ideas will be us working in tandem with the really useful tool of AI. AI for me is computers *at last* doing what you really want them to do - the tedium, assistant at your elbow. The issue will come when so much AI content is skewing AI correlations - like images now on the internet so many are AI generated that when AI generates new images it is going to go down a loop of self referencing. A distinction between true images and artificial needs to be made …

[@TobiasStarling]

Very sceptical of the chemists ai robots claim. Looking at the speed it moves im struggle to believe its that superior to a human unless the experiments are doing are literally the simplest ever with everything all in one place.

[@WealthyChronicle]

AI is helping us unlock the mysteries of bat communication... so, when are we going to translate our pets' barks into human speech? 😂🐶

[@tmver-e6m]

💛 😘🌟⚡🌹🙌 💞

[@ThingbaijamBilashini]

AI can also help in control of climate change by giving advice to scientist and billionaire

[@SeanLawlorNelson]

Hello: Sean Nelson, Scientist. 10 years ago I accurately would have told you A.I. was sheer hype and that although the memorizing and computing capacity of modern computers was something, human and even animal reason have immense advantages in terms of both intelligence and achievement, profundity and practicality. The crux of this reality comes down to the lack of a motive; Computers and robots have no motivation to be intelligent or actually think(and to think brilliantly is often to go against the flow,) such as Darwinian biological life-forms have. But I came up with the field of synthetic genetics, and I've had scientists working on it; along with other fields of actual A.I.. But I must alert you that everybody is saying the words 'Artificial Intelligence,' but 'Intelligence' is a very high bar that few indeed have reached.

[@СергейДюгай-о7ы]

А почему Россия спасается за счет разрушения городов другой страны?

[@alexl0890]

Can we find a cure for cancer already?

[@darkhelmet12e47]

Doesn't exist.

[@spoidermonpubgprime2019]

​@@darkhelmet12e47it exist. but the govt dont want give cure

[@MatthewPendleton-kh3vj]

Cures, plural. Cancers come in different kinds and for different reasons. Solving cancer in general is going to be a massive undertaking. I do think AI will speed that along though!

[@spoidermonpubgprime2019]

@@alexl0890 the govt is hiding the cure

[@hamzaadi2969]

Those are the bats that caused COVID 🦇

[@Dusky-Memory]

Holy cow, would everyone please freak out, this AI revolution would make practically everything useless. Buy gold now, it would be the new form of premium currency. Yeah… those ‘technology’ of your would be dirt cheap in could have years, it’s now or never. Save your $$$ now, don’t buy anything related to tech (clown emoji).

[@yebolact2918]

🪑💨🕶️🛐

[@danielvandermaas5370]

Why are there better grounds to expect AI to be a larger game changer than the internet? It is being suggested but not explained. Personally the internet feels to me like a more important game changer than AI or if I'm being generous equally important.

[@darkhelmet12e47]

If general AI happens it could do anything that humans can do, including make more of itself. It would turn every aspect of the world inside out.

[@nigel-uno]

How narrow does your thinking have to be to not see the potential of artificial intelligece that exceeds human intelligence?

[@danielvandermaas5370]

@@nigel-uno sure I see enormous potential for that kind of AI. But I'm talking about the AI that we actually have today and are likely to have in the near and mid term future. Which is not even close to the type of AI your are describing. It is not clear to me why it is reasonable to expect that the AI that we currently have and will have in the near future is going to be even bigger then the internet (which is a very very high bar)

[@nigel-uno]

@@danielvandermaas5370 If it's not clear how the AI of today can even revolutionize the world, you did not watch the video or possibly you did not understand the concepts discussed like AlphaFold. It is quite clear that AI even in the near future that use agentic reasoning will affect nearly every industry. In the short span of 5 years, AI has gone from being used only for analyzing datasets to being able to mimic speech near perfectly (see Google's NotebookLLM podcast feature) and handle multi step tasks to reach an objective. The tasks which were self assigned. Go look up the AI that lied to a TaskRabbit worker to solve captcha. That is from over a year ago. 5 years is literally nothing and huge amounts of technological progress was made. To think AI won't continue to make huge strides progress is wishful thinking.

[@chrisrobinson8339]

Don't ever support A.I. Ever. A.I is here to take your job or business.

[@N8O12]

You would rather die out of spite. AI is here to discover life-saving medicine, help us with difficult problems and make us understand the world better.

[@R.E.A.L.I.T.Y]

“You will own nothing, and you will be happy” The Psychopaths at DAVOS

[@willmack100]

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[@whackamole4909]

could you people stop using the word science? thanks

[@serge.x]

more abot ai

[@leesanghong80]

Dk22a

[@Tommy_007]

Maybe AI can help fight all the cheating students do with AI.

[@iamdmc]

hype

[@Withnail1969]

AI does not exist.

[@Tasty-the-money]

If we get batman to translate we could save so much resources, wink.

[@Rockyzach88]

Automate the admin, the paper pushers, and the VCs. Leave the scientist be.

[@nigel-uno]

You need to look up what Deepmind AlphaFold project is. It was mentioned in the video you clearly did not watch.

[@Rockyzach88]

I'll believe when I see. There's too much money and politics being thrown around right now with AI. Science should not be a victim of tunnel-visioned VCs and unregulated markets.

[@nigel-uno]

It's like your fried attention span couldn't sit through the video.

[@MatthewPendleton-kh3vj]

@@nigel-uno Or, you know, they remain skeptical of the claims of those who use AI in these types of environments. I'm not sure exactly how warranted some of the skepticism is, but if all of this pans out well, then I'm sure they'll change their mind.

[@nothanks7892]

Economist is the worst place to get news. Elitist News

[@gyanprakashraj4062]

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[@فهددخ]

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[@wonseoklee80]

I don’t like this slow-paced, traditional documentary-style editing. This entire video could have been done as a podcast in under 5 minutes.

[@benmcreynolds8581]

This is the type of stuff our advancements in computing technology should be utilized for. Rather than all of this forced AI art nonsense that's creating all of this trash slop we are now seeing. We just gotta use these things in the right ways. There is a lot of different niches that this technology can help improve..

[@UBETUBEME]

Trumpism A I- help needed whit the gene pull ASP

[@kevincgrabb]

Can you try again in English?

[@vaidyasethuraman452]

let AI come up with.a wonder material which absorbs CO2 in the air and a new material that replaces Plastic 100% and biodegradable. Instead of writing essays and searching for stuff...

[@Depressivestateofmind]

After veterans article unsubscribe from this garbage

[@sanjuansteve]

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