Comment by Ey7NFZ3P0nzAe
1 month ago
> AI is going to hit that limit. And there is no way for the AI to gain more knowledge without actually doing lab experiments
That's a big claim. I believe on the other hand that biology is applied chemistry which is applied quantum physics. And frontier models are so good at biology + biochemistry + chemistry + quantum physics that it's bound to trickle down into biology by sheer knowledge.
And secondly, even without pipettes i'm pretty sure computer simulation can teach us a tremendous amount still.
Maybe ASI can do the things you claim. Like figuring out why we have an appendix just by looking at our DNA.
Till then I don't think current crop of LLM will ever touch that capability. I'll believe it when I see it