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 a…
Do 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?
Maybe 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)