Comment by MisterMunchkin
15 hours ago
I really respect that you can show that level of commitment to a problem. We need people like you. If everyone just uses the slopmachines then we’ll lose that. I would never be able to stick to something for that long, which I guess is why I never achieve anything like this.
Thanks. I think AI is going to be a net benefit for people like me who have a surplus of ideas and too few hours to explore them. I may actually restart my graduate thesis research using AI, I did a survey of what has happened in the field since I left and about half of what I was working on back then has since been discovered and published by others, but there are some really interesting threads to pursue now that modern datasets are so much richer (this was computational biology research).
You may achieve far more than you plan on and it may come years and years after you think it should happen. You probably haven't met the right problem yet. You will.