I do think AI could increase scientific productivity. But so much of science isn't easily mechanized tasks like pipetting -- it's adjusting optics, troubleshooting custom equipment, and keeping critters from dying. Here's a plan to capture and use this "tacit knowledge."

(If you want to talk about doing this specifically for materials and manufacturing research, please reach out!)

This is also me suppressing my frustration with lumping a huge number of things under the terms "AI" and "science"