What does ancient bridge building and AI have in common?
Google DeepMind·2025-12-02 14:51

The Roman bridge building is maybe a better analogy of how we do AI development where we have some intuitions just like the Romans had intuitions and they built some beautiful bridges but they didn't have all the equations and full understanding and yet they built things they needed and yet they were able to drive carts across the bridge they built. We are in that sense operating partially intuitionally in AI but downstream the people using tools like alphafold I think it's more like having a great computat ...