You.com CEO Richard Socher: AI's next frontier is science, not code
PolarBearby · x · 2026-11-07
You.com founder and CEO Richard Socher argued on Yahoo Finance that AI's next frontier isn't code but science — physics, chemistry, biology and medicine. He lays out the case in his piece "The Eureka Machine," suggesting the next major AI breakthrough could help cure cancer.
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