Scientists in 'autonomous laboratories' are starting to outsource work to robots(npr.org)

4 pointsby Brajeshwarlast month1 comments

Scientists in 'autonomous laboratories' are starting to outsource work to robots

https://www.npr.org/2026/06/05/nx-s1-5846973/ai-science-robots-risks-experiments-gingko-bioworks

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Having done my share of pipetting back in the day, I have no problem letting my ML overlords take that part of the job.

for good or ill, overall biology is so complex and hard to experiment with, ML progress will be bottlenecked by other factors at a level of productivity much lower relative to information technology. But it's still be a huge deal.