[ExI] Fast Company - 6 AI predictions for 2026

[BillK]

On Sat, 27 Dec 2025 at 23:26, BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:

> It feels like AI moves so quickly that it’s impossible to know what’s
> coming next.
> 12-22-2025  By Thomas Smith
>
> <
> https://www.fastcompany.com/91461250/i-correctly-predicted-chatgpt-my-6-ai-predictions-2026
> >
> It is worth reading the whole article for the full story.
> They all sound reasonable to me.
> I'll list the six prediction titles below.
> BillK
>
> 1. OpenAI releases a new model in January.
> 2. Google’s Gemini continues its march toward domination.
> 3. Chatbots become therapy (and a bit more).
> 4. AI-generated videos take over—and not just on Sora.
> 5. Electricity becomes the limiting factor.
> 6. AI invades the real world.
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>


I asked the Chinese AI Kimi2 Thinking to discuss these AI predictions and
to make its own six AI predictions for 2026.
Kimi generally agreed with the predictions, but I thought that its final
No. 6 prediction was interesting.
*6. Scientific AI Hits its "Deep Blue Moment"*
In 2026, AI will crack a high-profile scientific problem that captures
public imagination—likely *protein design for a specific disease
target* or *materials
discovery for room-temperature superconductors*. This will be different
from AlphaFold: it'll be a closed-loop system that designs, simulates, and
validates its own hypotheses with robotic labs. The achievement will be
real and important, but the hype will be worse than the "ChatGPT
moment"—spawning unrealistic expectations that AI can instantly solve
climate change or cure all cancers. The gap between specialized scientific
AI and general problem-solving will be dangerously obscured.
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The complete discussion is here -
<https://www.kimi.com/share/19b799d0-4d02-8722-8000-000008457e98>

BillK
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