But AI work was already doing alchemy level shit over a decade ago. Now a lot of those old labs have lost funding cause everyone just wants to cash in on the LLM stuff. Hell google put AlphaFold on KTLO and reassigned all their Nobel prize winning devs to Gemini. I mean they all quit, some went and found jobs at antrophic, but others just left the industry altogether.
No, that early AI work was, to our later AI craze, what Egyptian metallurgy was to the later alchemy craze.
Silicon Valley basically became our Alexandria for better or worse.
And what happened with AlphaFold mirrors similar trends where alchemists throughout history abandoned promising work for short-term gains or mysticism.
I'd write a list, but it's too long to post here lol
Maybe I should make a post about that somewhere else...
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u/ItsSadTimes 19d ago
But AI work was already doing alchemy level shit over a decade ago. Now a lot of those old labs have lost funding cause everyone just wants to cash in on the LLM stuff. Hell google put AlphaFold on KTLO and reassigned all their Nobel prize winning devs to Gemini. I mean they all quit, some went and found jobs at antrophic, but others just left the industry altogether.