Compbio Leader Lior Pachter Rebuts Claims That AI Will Kill the Field
lpachter · x · 2026-08-08
Refuting the claim that computational biology is dying because general-purpose AI assistants can now write analysis pipelines from simple prompts, prominent computational biologist Lior Pachter stated that reports of the field's death have been greatly exaggerated.
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