Biomedical AI veteran: solving biology is limited by data, not compute
_smileyball · x · 2026-10-28
Responding to the widely discussed claim that "solving" biology is compute-limited, a biomedical AI practitioner with 7+ years in the field disagrees: the bottleneck is data. No amount of compute will magically tell you the actual transition dynamics of biology. He concedes that more compute applied to existing datasets can still yield impactful work.
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