AI for Science: Three Walls, Eight Hundred Million People, and a Copernican Revolution
A few days ago at a conference, the conversation turned to AI for science. Someone mentioned three walls: the paywall, the wet-lab wall, and the perception wall. Terence Tao says we are experiencing a Copernican revolution in intelligence, and humans are no longer the center of it. There are 8.8 million full-time researchers worldwide; after AI, there may be hundreds of millions. Amateurs are rushing in first, but the real bottleneck isn't the model.
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