Thanks! I think your cynical take could be pretty accurate. From what I can tell, the alt protein industry is only making limited use of AI at the moment and no current applications seem like major game-changers. But at least in theory I’d expect increasingly advanced AI to significantly accelerate progress in this area given its potential for speeding up research and development more broadly, so my goal with this research was to try to get a sense for the kinds of specific use cases that might be particularly promising in the future as general AI capabilities improve and as companies/researchers find ways to address the various bottlenecks I mention. There’s very limited research on AI and alt proteins and I had to rely a lot on general media coverage, which is obviously pretty limited and skewed, so I’m planning to talk more to experts in the area to get a better sense for this, which I might turn into a follow-up post at some point if it seems helpful.
Thanks! I think your cynical take could be pretty accurate. From what I can tell, the alt protein industry is only making limited use of AI at the moment and no current applications seem like major game-changers. But at least in theory I’d expect increasingly advanced AI to significantly accelerate progress in this area given its potential for speeding up research and development more broadly, so my goal with this research was to try to get a sense for the kinds of specific use cases that might be particularly promising in the future as general AI capabilities improve and as companies/researchers find ways to address the various bottlenecks I mention. There’s very limited research on AI and alt proteins and I had to rely a lot on general media coverage, which is obviously pretty limited and skewed, so I’m planning to talk more to experts in the area to get a better sense for this, which I might turn into a follow-up post at some point if it seems helpful.