Quintin Pope answers the 'good AI' question: AI is a technology for accelerating research
QuintinPope5 · x · 2026-09-13
Responding to Jay Caspian Kang's challenge, Quintin Pope argues concisely that scientific research is good and AI is a technology for accelerating it, citing domain-specific systems: AlphaFold for protein modeling, RegFormer for single-cell drug responses, TokaMind for fusion plasma physics, and WeatherNext 2 for forecasting.
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