Hassabis: Math Hits a Ceiling in Biology; AI Is Reality's New Language
r0ck3t23 · x · 2026-08-01
Demis Hassabis argues that while mathematics has been the perfect descriptive language for physics for centuries, it lacks the expressive power to understand highly emergent dynamical systems like biology. He believes machine learning is the perfect description language for biology.
He is currently working on a 'virtual cell'—a running simulation of a living system that no equation could ever contain. By learning these simulators, AI can understand the system first and potentially extract underlying equations later. This reverses the traditional scientific method followed since Newton, positioning AI not just as a tool, but as a second language for reality.
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