> I don't think biology will ever be "understood" in the same way that derivatives or diffusion or gravity is understood. There's so many levels of nested compl

> I don't think biology will ever be "understood" in the same way that derivatives or diffusion or gravity is understood. There's so many levels of nested complexity that it is totally mind-boggling, and I'm surprised more biologists aren't impressed by the sheer fact that any of it works at all. ...yet at the same time biology and medicine will probably be the hardest fields for computers to "make discoveries in" for quite some time, except low level molecular biology things like low scale protein interaction or selecting from dug-candidate molecules. There's so much data so "badly formatted" and full of ambiguity that I can't even imagine when an AI will be able to read medical research papers and make sense of them - it's hard even for humans. Otoh there will be tons of data where computers will be able to search for patterns, but the actual knowledge necessary to transform "patterns" into "discoveries" is in the icky ambiguous format of papers and books that are impossible to make sense of for any less-than-human-level-AI.