[phtrivier]

No idea of whether those people ar competent, or if it's a PR stunt. Good luck to them. I've joked often enough that "a vaccine for common cold" would have changed my life.

Also, I'm:

- happy that they don't claim the breakthrough will come from AI or Blockchain, for once

- a bit surprised that they got founding by both openAi and Anthropic (so of course they'll try to solve a few things with ai and Blockchain, but,who knows.) Aren't those companies loosing vast amount of money at the moment ? What are they doing philanthropy with ? Just borrowing ? Or are investors for their Series XYZ usually ok with the owner using the money to fund pet projects (even if here, the "pet project" is a good idea, and potentially a good customer/ ?

[simianwords]

Your post is equalising the utility of blockchain and AI which means you have no idea about the utility of either of them.

[phtrivier]

My post should have used quotes around "AI and blockchain" (or maybe read "AI and blockain and VR and whatever").

By that I meant "they don't pretend they're going to solve a hard problem by vaguely handwaving at trendy buzzwords".

More seriously speaking, I suspect (and hope) that some form of machine learning / data generation could help in such an effort (AlphaFold is a thing, not a buzzword.)

The blockchain part is much more tongue in check, of course.