imlaggingsobad t1_isqsr66 wrote on October 18, 2022 at 12:36 AM

Isn't this the mission of DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs? Someone actually beat them to it I guess. Maybe we are all massively underestimating the impact AI will have on health/bio research.

Silicon-Dreamer t1_isqwy6i wrote on October 18, 2022 at 1:09 AM

Certainly a step in the right direction I'd argue! I don't know what Isomorphic Labs' mission is, but to quote DeepMind's mission statement,

> Our long term aim is to solve intelligence, developing more general and capable problem-solving systems, known as artificial general intelligence (AGI).

imlaggingsobad t1_isr4nis wrote on October 18, 2022 at 2:09 AM

DeepMind's goal is a bit more specific than that. They want to solve intelligence so they can use that intelligence to understand science. Demis Hassabis wants to answer all of the fundamental questions in physics, chem, bio, math, everything.

Isomorphic labs is a drug discovery startup that spun out of DeepMind. Hassabis has long hoped to build a virtual simulation of a cell, which would allow you to run infinite experiments on a cell. That would radically shorten the timecycles for disease discovery.

Black_RL t1_issspx3 wrote on October 18, 2022 at 1:19 PM

I’m not underestimating it, it’s going to speed up things.

Gotta save mom!

r/longevity

onyxengine t1_isuh9rz wrote on October 18, 2022 at 8:04 PM

And to be honest building everything with Goal of solving for AGI is going to be the slow route. Machine learning without AGI is just so goddamn powerful already.