AI Describes Biology

From Weekly I/O#69


If Math is the perfect description language for physics, AI might be the perfect description language for biology.

Podcast: Demis Hassabis: DeepMind | Lex Fridman Podcast

Deepmind has been using machine learning to advance many fields in biology, most notably with AlphaFold. Demis Hassabis, CEO of Deepmind, stated, "If you think of mathematics as the perfect description language for physics, AI might end up being the perfect description language for biology."

Because biology is so messy, dynamic, and complex, it's hard to believe we would ever get to something as elegant as Newton's laws of motion to describe a cell. It's just too complicated. Therefore, the nature of artificial intelligence can make it the right tool for biology.


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