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This is research. It helps discover things you might not have anticipated. Unlike engineering, you don't have a a project description and a known target market.

AI research seems to have hit a lode that yields solutions to recognition and generation of texts and images. Good thing, but not something what could have been predicted, let alone planned, 20 years ago.

One of the solutions for world hunger, synthetic fertilizers, have been discovered by the same chemical research that produced explosives and poisons.



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