Chemistry and AI Are Both Empirical Alchemy — and Each Field Could Learn From the Other
burny_tech · x · 2026-09-12
The author finds talking to chemists surprisingly enlightening: chemistry is partly empirical alchemy, much like the AI field, and the two disciplines have much to learn from each other's methods.
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