molecular assembler is nearer

> We adapted existing deep reinforcement learning for this purpose. It took the algorithm on the order of one day to learn and then about one hour to build the lattice.

Such potential for learning and problem solving skills is my favorite thing about AI. I can only imagine if they were fully let free to make better AI who's better at making better AIs and so on, aka a high level of constant self updating. The exponential speed of growth for these skills is out of my limited comprehension, so are the results of it. This world as we know it will be no more in a future not as far as our society might think.

When do you think the nanofactory will be created? My guess is 2029, but since you seem to think the singularity will happen by 2025, I'm guessing you think it's around that time, right?

This decade :)

I do have the same feeling

What would a molecular assembler do? Does it mean it could build anything we want?

A single one obviously would take forever to build anything useful, but could hundreds of these "arms" be in use at the same time, on the same object?

Naah molecular assemblers probably won't become available for consumers until 2050-2070

Pretty much, it assembles from the molecules, so as long as you have the raw material, your good to go