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Biology is a borderline infinite system depending on how deep you go. We need to be able to model molecular forcefields to be able to model DNA expression to b
by the_real_cher 2y ago
Biology is a borderline infinite system depending on how deep you go.
We need to be able to model molecular forcefields to be able to model DNA expression to be able to model protein expression to be able to model, layers and layers of higher order molecules just to represent a cell.
Then...you have combining cells to make an organism and the interaction of the organism with its environment which affects all of the above.
I think a monkey will be able to understand how to use a cell phone before humans understand how biology works.
- ewjt 2y agoDo you actually need to simulate at that minuscule level of detail? Or is it possible for a system to be built that can approximate biology similar to how LLMs approximate cognition without true understanding and reasoning?
- the_real_cher 2y agoI don't know. I guess it depends on how accurate you want to get and when testing therapies for humans you probably want to be pretty accurate. There may be some abstraction layer that provides 'good enough' accuracy though that I'm not aware of.
- shwaj 2y agoMaybe it’s possible to build something analogous to LLMs, but it’s going to need to be based on completely different technology, due to: 1) the lack of abundant training data (nothing analogous to a trillion-word internet to scrape) 2) the unacceptability of hallucinations (can’t just dose people; need some other way to validate)