New essay explores the strange and marvelous challenges facing biological AI
anshulkundaje · x · 2026-09-07
A shared essay, Strange and Marvelous Challenges for Biological AI, opens with the story of Pierre de Fermat's famous 1637 marginal note — "the best conjectures are written in the margins" — as a framing device for the open problems in AI for biology. The piece argues the field still has many unsolved, intellectually rich challenges awaiting exploration.
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