I was pretty impressed with AlphaFold by DeepMind. The James P. Allison work was a big deal - they literally are curing cancer but it seems to not have penetrated popular culture for some reason.
In comp sci everything is LLMs right now, which isn't wrong from an impact standpoint, but it seems like a lot of the future value will be rigging LLMs together with a voice interface and have it "do things" with robots or agents. Theres been some discussion of the "data wall", and optimizations around the algorithms used in training, so it feels like the roller coaster is far from over. I'm personally bullish on CV/ CNN stuff which is largely overshadowed right now... Classification and predictive models still have a LOT going for them, especially since the accuracy is higher than LLMs are (99ish on discrete tasks vs ~95ish).
The rest of the comp sci stuff is interesting but still needs to prove itself as being viable. Quantum is in there for sure, but it looks like its going to be viable just over a long timeline.
Cloning hasn't been talked about in ages, I wouldn't be surprised if the first human clone either happened already or is being worked on.
The space race between the billionaires is moderately interesting when we get stuff like starlink and reusable rockets. The possibility of a moon base in my lifetime would be awesome.
I'm a huge fan of Farming robots. The space is getting some action. Precision weeding is real and being used.
There was a project I believe by the segment guys to pull CO2 out of the air, make gas, and pump it back into the ground. I thought thats great stuff.
Battery tech / Energy storage continues to be interesting. Nuclear power getting a revived interest is great. Theres stuff with molten salt and micro nuclear thats fascinating (I don't know much) Alternative storage like concrete blocks (yes its real) are also interesting.
thats all I have off the top of my head. interested to see what the answers look like
AgTech fascinates me as well - it is a space with so much potential for gain and efficiency. All the pieces for fully autonomous crop farming are available today, but just not well integrated yet. To an outsider, they don't look like hard science problems, but merely ROI and mindset changes.
In comp sci everything is LLMs right now, which isn't wrong from an impact standpoint, but it seems like a lot of the future value will be rigging LLMs together with a voice interface and have it "do things" with robots or agents. Theres been some discussion of the "data wall", and optimizations around the algorithms used in training, so it feels like the roller coaster is far from over. I'm personally bullish on CV/ CNN stuff which is largely overshadowed right now... Classification and predictive models still have a LOT going for them, especially since the accuracy is higher than LLMs are (99ish on discrete tasks vs ~95ish).
The rest of the comp sci stuff is interesting but still needs to prove itself as being viable. Quantum is in there for sure, but it looks like its going to be viable just over a long timeline.
Cloning hasn't been talked about in ages, I wouldn't be surprised if the first human clone either happened already or is being worked on.
The space race between the billionaires is moderately interesting when we get stuff like starlink and reusable rockets. The possibility of a moon base in my lifetime would be awesome.
I'm a huge fan of Farming robots. The space is getting some action. Precision weeding is real and being used.
There was a project I believe by the segment guys to pull CO2 out of the air, make gas, and pump it back into the ground. I thought thats great stuff.
Battery tech / Energy storage continues to be interesting. Nuclear power getting a revived interest is great. Theres stuff with molten salt and micro nuclear thats fascinating (I don't know much) Alternative storage like concrete blocks (yes its real) are also interesting.
thats all I have off the top of my head. interested to see what the answers look like