Are we on the cusp of magic?

 

"President Trump wants the United States to be the leader in AI. Why? Because AI will change just about everything. From the very large to the very small. When I say very small, I am talking about things like protein sequencing. Why is that important? For a starter, many diseases could be cured if we understood the correct proteins to use to combat them."

Every now and again, I have trouble falling asleep. One of my natural cures for those times, is finding something on YouTube which might be so boring to me, I will only hear the "white noise" and ignore the content. Quite often that does the trick. Recently, I found one on YouTube which could be a doozy. It was about how AI could help in protein sequencing. Wow! I should doze off in about five minutes with that one. Was I ever wrong! This was one of the most fascinating things I have seen on that channel in a long time! It was about true science moving so fast right now, it is almost like magic.

President Trump wants the United States to be the leader in AI. Why? Because AI will change just about everything. From the very large to the very small. When I say very small, I am talking about things like protein sequencing. Why is that important? For a starter, many diseases could be cured if we understood the correct proteins to use to combat them. But here is where the tricky part comes. The permutations of proteins are almost endless. Without AI, it could take the average computing many lifetimes to get this right.

Using AI and quantum computing, it is possible to have the right proteins identified to cure autoimmune diseases by the end of Trump's term. Maybe even cancer. Maybe AIDS. Maybe many diseases we have made progress on but still have not discovered the magic bullet which will cure them. What does this mean? AI has put us on the cusp of medical magic.

Besides medical solutions, protein sequencing could also help in fixing different types of pollution, agriculture, energy, and so forth. With the possible combination of different proteins being almost endless, as the saying goes, "we don't know what we don't know". Translation: we might discover many things which we had not expected to find. 

One scientist said we are now falling down the rabbit hole of discovery at an increasing fast pace. Knowledge builds on knowledge, and the speed of discovery seems to increase every day. Is it good that Trump wants us to be the biggest and brightest in AI? For sure it is. But it is also good for mankind that other countries are also doing research on this. Finding cures for diseases which have plagued mankind for generations, is a good thing, and should be shared. 

Are we on the cusp of magic? Might be. But we are definitely on the verge of a Golden Age of America. The America we see out the window right now, will look and act much differently in 2030. And again in 2035. And 2040. 

Change is not only coming, but it is here. The new "roaring twenties" are really about ready to live up to their nickname. This is a great time to be alive.