Interesting ending to the latest Veritasium video today. It asks “What if all the world’s biggest problems have the same solution?” and spends nearly all its time talking about AlphaFold and how AI is starting to be able to accelerate areas of research by literal decades almost overnight. Superficially this will no doubt sound positive to many people, but then—with his final words—he slips in the following: “This sounds like an amazing future… as long as the AI doesn’t take over and destroy us all first.”
Interesting ending to the latest Veritasium video today. It asks “What if all the world’s biggest problems have the same solution?” and spends nearly all its time talking about AlphaFold and how AI is starting to be able to accelerate areas of research by literal decades almost overnight. Superficially this will no doubt sound positive to many people, but then—with his final words—he slips in the following: “This sounds like an amazing future… as long as the AI doesn’t take over and destroy us all first.”