It's hard to say anything about the potential developments within decades from now without sounding like a lunatic, so lets keep it at the obvious for now. The near term effects of computational protein folding will be 1) structure-based drug design has a wealth of data to work on now, so a lot of drug candidates for novel targets will be designed, though the experimental pipeline still remains the main bottleneck in the drug discovery process for now, but organ-on-a-chip and similar technologies are challenging that, and 2) protein design will be accelerated significantly and with it synthetic biology. Given that proteins are the main machinery of life and most drugs in current use try to target specific proteins to intervene in disease mechanisms, the potential for what can be built and cured is enormous. Beyond biology, the most exciting aspect could be that advanced AI will increasingly be able to tackle scientific questions that seemed unsolvable for long time, or might even be totally out of human reach. I think mathematics and physics are good candidates for major events, such as AI systems becoming able to deduce relevant, original theorems on their own in exceptional speed, or discovering new relationships between observables that humans did not recognize at all. Also, control of various physical processes will improve significantly, where a clear application that's actively being worked on is plasma control in nuclear fusion. The more speculative take would be about AI becoming an increasingly capable general-purpose problem solver, which can transfer abstract knowledge learned in certain domains well to other domains, which can reliably generate new knowledge by advanced machine reasoning, and which at some point might design better algorithms for doing so, effectively entering a recursive self-improvement loop of unknown limitations. So within our lifetimes, a system that can read the entire scientific literature and inspect petabytes of harvested experimental data to come up with new hypotheses to test doesn't sound too outlandish to me, which would have unprecedented effects on science and technology.

yes, people invent new maffs all the time

https://dusk.network/news/bas-kortenhoff-joins-dusk https://dusk.network/pages/team https://www.linkedin.com/in/b-kortenhoff-19299379

Sentience (classically) means to experience sensations, i.e. feelings that have to do with sensory input. There's zero reason to assume a transformer trained on text can have that. There's also zero reason to assume that it has a meaningful concept of itself, which can easily be seen when it mimics talking about oneself.

Are you actively promoting STDs (security token developments)?

Guess it's mostly that and antipathy with Charles Hoskinson, which I can understand though I don't share it.

No, he became CEO of Emurgo where he was roughly 3 years if I see correctly. And Cardano has solid tech in contrast to other top10 projects.

https://dusk.network/news/dusk-network-allocates-grant-to-privacy-web3-protocol-hopr "HOPR’s incentivized and scalable private mix network lets users earn its native token, HOPR, as an incentive for running nodes that anonymously and securely relay data to other network members using the project’s proof-of-relay system. This allows users to send data to other users without exposing vital metadata such as their IP addresses." "Adding essential transport-level privacy to the on-chain privacy of Dusk Network" => Is that analogous to Onion routing for sending transactions?

https://github.com/tqdm/tqdm Most popular machine learning library

Some central bank?

Privacy-preserving smart contracts and instant finality of transactions, which allows to implement token standards for digital securities that are compliant with existing regulations (privacy, auditability, instant finality, ...).

I'm not aware of one, but there are a lot of projects out there.

https://explorer.dusk.network/blocks/block/?id=a3155611efaa3e990f17af6b6cde004489c85b58ffdadd5acb9111b4ad563719 A block on the testnet with some transactions from community members.

that number i've posted has nothing to do with tps. it was just an attempt by some community members to send transactions at the same time, so they get added to the same block. a while ago it was discussed which scaling solutions are possible for dusk once the demand has grown to a point where it becomes relevant.

Perhaps the "distribute" ones are the block rewards ("coinbase" tx in BTC). Would be good to include a short explanation in the tooltip.