This is a fascinating point. Let me see if I can play this back. If a student studies DNA sequencing, they’ll learn about the compounds that make up DNA, how

This is a fascinating point. Let me see if I can play this back. If a student studies DNA sequencing, they’ll learn about the compounds that make up DNA, how traits get encoded, etc. Therefore the student might expect an AI trained on people’s DNA to be able to tell you about whether certain traits are more prevalent in one geography or the other. However, since DNA responds to changes in environment, the AI would start to see time, population, and geography-based patterns emerge. The AI for example could infer that a given person in the US who’s settled in NYC had ancestors from a given region of the world who left due to an environmental disaster just by looking at a given DNA sequence. To the student this result would look like magic. But in the end, it’s a result of individual’s DNA having much more information encoded in it than just human traits.