Posted on:: October 9th, 2024
The article notes that the prize actually went to two humans, but this headline from MIT Tech Review may just be ahead of its time. Are we one generation of tech away from a Nobel Prize going to a machine itself — assuming the next gen is more autonomous in terms of what it applies itself to?
I’m not convinced that that would be so bad, with a relatively small assumption and a very big one.
Small assumption: Future generations of AI will be more autonomous in the research tasks they assign themselves. For example, the protein-folding AI looks at its own results and discovers a thread worth modeling and exploring. Boom, cancer is cured!
Big assumption: It’s not Boom! Humans are “cured”, if you know what I mean.
