logoalt Hacker News

numbers_guytoday at 2:33 PM1 replyview on HN

Not really. These same techniques fall flat on their face when applied to most physics and chemistry problems. All of academia has already been doing ML4Science for the last 8 years. God knows how many billions have been spent.

The only two major highlights are weather modeling and folded protein backbone prediction.

Mostly everything else, either lacks enough data, or there are contraits on the size of the foundational models that render them impractical or they just fail to generalize.


Replies

inglor_cztoday at 2:55 PM

Connect the AI to a fully automated lab and it may be able to generate and harvest those necessary data.

It may also produce Supercovid in the process, so...

We don't have to worry about new math as much as we do about new biology. Although "breaking all current encryption" would have some nasty consequences as well.