"Take Google's claim that its Deepmind product had advanced material science by 800 years, "discovering 2.2 million structures." It turns out that these "discoveries" are useless – in that they constitute trivial variations on known materials, and/or have no uses, and/or can only exist at absolute zero:"
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.chemmater.4c00643
One of many moments of 🤯 from Cory Doctorow (npub1fdr…lvhs)
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/05/fisher-price-steering-wheel/#billionaire-solipsism
