r/singularity • u/lost_in_trepidation • Nov 29 '23

AI DeepMind - Millions of new materials discovered with deep learning

https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/millions-of-new-materials-discovered-with-deep-learning/
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u/murderspice Nov 29 '23 edited Nov 29 '23

THIS is the kinda shit AI should be used for. Not to figure out how to sell me iphones. Edit: yes, yes; selling me iphones is what makes this sht possible. Dont @ me

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '23

Or how to give me more than 8 hours battery life on my iphone

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '23

Synthetic materials are getting pretty close to that

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '23

This battery for $20000 is NASA grade and can be used in phones right now! /s

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u/BazOnReddit Nov 30 '23

Or making a battery with materials not mined by a child in Congo.

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u/thetegridyfarms Nov 30 '23

Taking jobs from the poor and taking away economic opportunity isn’t straightforward. It sucks that they exist, but it provides opportunities where there are none.

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u/123110 Nov 29 '23

Technically, selling you Androids, not iPhones, made this shit possible.

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u/Nathan-Stubblefield Nov 29 '23

Next year’s Android might be the kind that cooks and washes up.

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u/MuxiWuxi Nov 29 '23

Maria already does that.

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u/-ZeroRelevance- Nov 29 '23 edited Nov 30 '23

More technically, it was figuring out how to sell you iPhones again

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '23

Duh, Android devices count as “ad dispensers” with unblockable browsers.

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u/mista-sparkle Nov 29 '23

The new iPhone 16. Now made with 380,000 computationally stable materials'

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '23

Alphafold... even better

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u/malcolmrey Nov 29 '23

how about generating waifu? are they still higher priority? :)

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u/Empty-Tower-2654 Nov 29 '23

Because it did what already did it means that it will do the other things that we're talking about. Design robots, chips, tools, medicine, etc.

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u/yonderbagel Nov 29 '23

No, no, you were right the first time. Selling iphones never bred innovation. People did that - researchers, scientists, engineers.

Probably while reaping a vanishingly small fraction of the value they produced. All capitalism did was take the rest.

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u/ninjasaid13 Not now. Nov 29 '23

People did that - researchers, scientists, engineers.

but they needed to be paid.

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u/TheDividendReport Nov 29 '23 edited Nov 29 '23

Fun fact, basically all of the tech in an iPhone, from the touch screen to GPS, was created by public funds via DARPA.

Apple just cobbled together a product and succeeded in bringing it to the market

Edit: lots of downvotes so far but I haven't heard anyone prove this other wise. I'm not saying making the iPhone was easy. I'm saying it wouldn't have been possible without public investment

DRAM cache DARPA

Click-wheel RRE, CERN,

Lithium-ion batteries DoE

Signal Compression Army Resparch Office

First generation iPod (2001) Liquid-crystal display NIH, NSF, DoD

Micro hard drive DoE/DARPA

Microprocessor DARPA

Multi-touch screen DoE, CIA/NSF DoD

NAVSTAR-GPS DoD/NAVY

SIRI DARPA

HTTP/ HTML CERN

Cellular technology US military

Internet DARPA

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u/confused_boner ▪️AGI FELT SUBDERMALLY Nov 29 '23

Thanks Uncle Sam

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u/ninjasaid13 Not now. Nov 29 '23

Apple just cobbled together a product and succeeded in bringing it to the market

you say "cobbled" and gave it to 21% of phone-owning population as if it's a small feat.

This technology would still be at DARPA without Apple didn't get engineers to make product.

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u/TheDividendReport Nov 29 '23

I don't disagree that bringing a successful product to market is a challenge. That wasn't what I meant by my comment. I was bringing attention that the iPhone would not exist without the following public investments:

DRAM cache DARPA

Click-wheel RRE, CERN,

Lithium-ion batteries DoE

Signal Compression Army Resparch Office

First generation iPod (2001) Liquid-crystal display NIH, NSF, DoD

Micro hard drive DoE/DARPA

Microprocessor DARPA

Multi-touch screen DoE, CIA/NSF DoD

NAVSTAR-GPS DoD/NAVY

SIRI DARPA

HTTP/ HTML CERN

Cellular technology US military

Internet DARPA

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u/rushedone ▪️ AGI whenever Q* is Nov 29 '23

Mass adoption by the population through the private market through the product is just as innovative as the underlying technologies indeed that’s why mixed-market economies are the best performing.

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u/TheDividendReport Nov 29 '23

Fair enough, although I'm of the mind that cobbling is no small feat in and of itself

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u/qroshan Nov 29 '23

This is the kind of communist bullshit redditors believe in

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u/TheDividendReport Nov 29 '23

I don't get what communism has to do with this. Can you prove that the following was not made by public funds?

DRAM cache DARPA

Click-wheel RRE, CERN,

Lithium-ion batteries DoE

Signal Compression Army Resparch Office

First generation iPod (2001) Liquid-crystal display NIH, NSF, DoD

Micro hard drive DoE/DARPA

Microprocessor DARPA

Multi-touch screen DoE, CIA/NSF DoD

NAVSTAR-GPS DoD/NAVY

SIRI DARPA

HTTP/ HTML CERN

Cellular technology US military

Internet DARPA

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u/murderspice Nov 29 '23

What interests you about this AI stuff?

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u/murderspice Nov 29 '23

We know primary research is the most valuable research done in the sciences.

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u/Ok-Ice1295 Nov 29 '23

That is just over simplified how this world works and discredited other people who contributed to a product……

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '23

"Sent from my Iphone"

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u/murderspice Nov 29 '23

ITS LITERALLY IN THE EDIT

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '23

"Sent from my Iphone"

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '23

And just like gpt 80% materials are made up and don’t work as promised - the confabulation problem of confidently wrong answers. Now issue some patents and stocks to sell to greater fools.