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idiotsecanttoday at 11:10 AM0 repliesview on HN

And it makes a lot of sense why they are limited. DNA is not an instruction set. It's more like a heavily encrypted dataset where the encryption key is the totality of physics and biology. The interactions with the physical world that result in the end product of life are enormously (it would seem hopelessly) complex.

For a machine intelligence to turn DNA sequences into organisim phenotype prediction requires modelling all that in latent space.

I imagine that is going to take a monumental amount of example data