Submitted by IluvBsissa t3_112tdr3 in singularity
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IluvBsissa OP t1_j8mc2kv wrote
Well that's what I said. We need more AI specialized in simulating biological systems and new transistors to increase the rate of progress exponentially. I doubt an AGI would be able to get us there
cloudrunner69 t1_j8mbs6p wrote
>a millions of Einsteins by themselves would never be able to deduce what's going on exactly in a cell, it's just too messy and unpredictable.
Well yeah, cause Einstein wasn't a cell biologist.
dasnihil t1_j8mvtc0 wrote
"We need more and better specialized AI, and more and better super-computers."
Yes captain obvious, if we could simulate atoms, we could simulate cells. We don't have any of those capabilities right now and we already know the challenge at hand.
CJOD149-W-MARU-3P t1_j8mhr5e wrote
Instead of simulating an absurd number of atoms, I wonder if physical laws and scientific principles could be encoded into mathematical formulas, with the AI being taught the most fundamental principles and then building on them into a basic edifice of scientific understanding. That foundation could then be expanded through the addition of newer, more recent discoveries, and the AI could be tasked with expanding upon them.
Ortus14 t1_j8mp9d2 wrote
We don't understand human tissues well enough to simulate them. This is why we need Ai scientists, conducting and leading experiments.
Once we understand them, cures may be obvious to the Ai's and not require simulation.
IluvBsissa OP t1_j8n3znd wrote
But what if we just simulate a fundamental embryonic cell and let it grow in a simulated womb, to see how it develops and...aww shit we don't know how the womb works either...and maybe just basic tissues in a simulated petri dish ? Idk.
Ortus14 t1_j8ncx6k wrote
Some simulations will help, especially those aided by Ai.
The protein folding problem was solved by an Ai, but you could call it a simulation that learned how to simulate given lots of examples.
I think the aging problem is best attacked from all angles.
Regardless of the approaches, the increasing levels of computation will make all problems much easier to solve.
Lawjarp2 t1_j8mt0mn wrote
Get to AGI. Use AGI to get to super-computers that can do all that if the AGI itself can't do it.
ImoJenny t1_j8m3v2o wrote
This would literally take more processing power than even the most bleeding edge AI, and wouldn't even work with classical computing. You need quantum computing to simulate the behavior of molecules with any real degree of efficiency.
Moreover, what good is creating massive simulations if you don't have AI to extract information from them. Many fields of science have turned to AI because their models and datasets are already too vast to go through manually.