DeepMind exec: AI is driving a genuine phase transition in scientific discovery, releases coming in weeks
Yamapama · x · 2026-11-09
Nina Schick builds on a note from DeepMind's pushmeet to argue this time is different: for the first time, humans have industrialized intelligence and are distributing it like a utility into the digital and physical world. Its capability is improving exponentially and becoming self-recursive, triggering a Cambrian explosion in knowledge — disease, poverty, and other 'inescapable' natural limits are now 'solvable' with enough computation. Pushmeet confirms DeepMind is witnessing a genuine phase transition in the pace of scientific discovery, with a glimpse coming in the next few weeks of releases.
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