Nick Talken

And so there's going to be a big role to play in cloud labs there, but it will never replace the actual experimental result.

That, I think, is the beauty of science.

There will never be a world where you will just purely be able to do science digitally, I think, or maybe we're so far away that it doesn't matter about talking about that.

I think that you're going to do 95% of the

failed experiments, hopefully digitally.

And then the ones that you actually go run are the ones that have that information density.

I was talking about that.

It may not be the right answer, but they're at least going to test a space that you have no historical knowledge around.

And I like to give people an example, um, just to kind of like put in perspective how challenging this problem is.

If I give you guys a task today and I was like, okay, you've got a hundred different ingredients.

I want you to make a recipe to make a cake.

Um,

And all I want you to do is pick a set of those 10 ingredients.

So don't worry about the ratios and how much each one has to be.

How many unique sets of 10 ingredients out of 100 do you think that there are that you could come up with?

it's, it's 17 trillion.

Um, yeah, so it's, it's, it's 17 trillion combinations of just 10 ingredients.

Now, if you think about what the ratios of those ingredients should be, then that blows up even bigger.

And of course there's way more than 10 ingredients that you can choose from as a scientist.

And so the idea that you could even brute force this problem without having domain knowledge around it, it's just impossible.