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Re:Silicon Valley Promises AI Will Cure Disease. Drugmaker C... by XenophileJKO on Monday November 09, 2026 @03:12AM (#50422589)
Just like all the mathematicians were applying all that they know to solve the math problems.. and AI certainly can't do that...

Yes, biology is different and experimental evidence is very different than mathmatics, but the ability to pull from a lot of known information and formulate possible problems that biologists didn't anticipate isn't really a stretch from where we are on the capability curve right now.

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Re:Silicon Valley Promises AI Will Cure Disease. Drugmaker C... by refurb on Monday November 09, 2026 @06:11AM (#50424011)
Math is an entirely different problem to solve.

Look at the showcase AI proof of the Naiver-Stokes existence. It basically took an equation and proved it was valid across all possible variables.

That’s a problem in a closed system. There is no question how the function works. The tools needed to solve it are known.

Biology is like solving a math equation we only have a crude approximation for. Parts of the equation are missing and there are variables we aren’t aware of. You also have a limited set of tools to test the equation.

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