[funnygiraffe]

Thanks. That's certainly very interesting. Albeit it seems to me that the number of jobs doing geometric and topological ML/AI work in the drug or protein design space would be quite limited, because any discovery ultimately has to be validated through a wet lab process (or perhaps phase 1-3 clinical trials for drugs) which is expensive and time-consuming. However, I'm very uninformed and perhaps there is indeed a sizable job market here.

[dpflan]

I think the job market in general for this kind of stuff is "small"; but you can find jobs. Look at Isomoprhic Labs for example. There are new AI/ML companies that have emerged in recent years, helped by success of things like AlphaFold. I think your question is really: does this research actually creates tangible results? If it did, it would be able to create more jobs to support it by virtue of being economically successfully and therefore growing?