AlphaGenome suggests AI's biggest science wins may come from narrowing search spaces
VraserX · x · 2026-09-10
Reflecting on AlphaGenome, the author argues biology has far too many possibilities for humans to test exhaustively; AI doesn't need to know the answer — being dramatically better at telling us where to look is already huge. Narrowing search spaces may be AI's biggest contribution to science.
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