As someone with a background in CS (but not AI/ML) and working in bioinformatics:

People with a background in methods like solving problems that are easy to solve with the methods they know. Those are rarely the problems people in biology/medicine want to solve. Some common pitfalls include:

* Asking the right questions.

* Framing the questions correctly.

* Finding computational problems that capture the essence of the questions and that can be solved efficiently.

* Interpreting the results.

* Avoiding systemic biases in rare but important edge cases.

Finding the right problems to solve takes time, and the first attempts will probably fail.