'Solve biologists, not biology': a sharp take on Anthropic's AI ambitions
johnowhitaker · x · 2026-11-15
MasonKamb argues that while Anthropic and others say they want to "solve biology" — a genuinely Hard Problem, as biologists note — their more accurate near-term goal is to "solve biologists": outperforming most biologists on computer-based tasks, which is far easier.
johnowhitaker adds that this burn exposes a common misunderstanding ("we're not solving bio, we're just better at computer tasks than people who chose bio over computer") and predicts AI will soon excel at "bio computer stuff" and eventually at biology itself.
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