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They are already being trained in biology right now? What he is saying is that they are being trained on what we know about biology currently. AI is going to hit that limit. And there is no way for the AI to gain more knowledge without actually doing lab experiments

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> 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

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