>For example we dream of curing disease and aging but it is beyond our current knowledge. The hard sciences (especially medicine) and engineering don't advance

>For example we dream of curing disease and aging but it is beyond our current knowledge. The hard sciences (especially medicine) and engineering don't advance just by thinking deeply about things, they advance through physical research and experiments. A lot of these can't be sped up, e.g. clinical trials, so an AI wouldn't make much difference here. And no it can't just "simulate it all", as the computational power needed to simulate reality to that degree of accuracy is still many orders of magnitude greater than what's currently available to us.