AI needs a high-visibility biology win like cancer, not another benchmark, argues poster
flowersslop · x · 2026-09-09
The author argues that even if AI solved all of mathematics, most people would still dismiss it as "just compute" because math has zero intuitive salience to them.
What AI actually needs, in his view, is a massive high-visibility biology win — cancer, autoimmune disease, something ordinary people genuinely fear. Not another benchmark or niche theorem, but a problem humans failed to solve that materially improves people's lives.
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