"Take Google's claim that its Deepmind product had advanced material science by 800 years, "discovering 2.2 million structures."

"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 @pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/05/fisher-price-steering-wheel/#billionaire-solipsism