Wet-lab innovations will lead the AI revolution in biology
This is an 'Argument' post. It is intended to have a reasonably strong opinion, with mildly more conviction than my actual opinion. Think of it closer to a persuasive essay than a review on the topic, which my ‘Primers’ are more-so meant for. Do Your Own Research applies for all my posts, but especially so with these. Another note: a fair amount of this post is inspired by, and repeats many of the points, in Michael Bronstein’s essay on black box biological data. I highly recommend reading his post! I write free posts about the intersection of biology and ML every 1-2 weeks! To receive new posts and support my work, consider subscribing. Audio: Introduction The argument The steelman There is a lot of money flowing into biology-ML startups that are ostensibly computational in their approach. They do not have an in-house lab. They are collecting together hundreds of H100 GPU’s. The company is not built off of an advance in wet-lab technology, but rather an advance in applying enough comp
Arguments Wet-lab innovations will lead the AI revolution in biology 1.9k words, 9 minutes reading time Abhishaike Mahajan Jul 15, 2024 75 3 8 Share This is an ' Argument ' post. It is intended to have a reasonably strong opinion, with mildly more conviction than my actual opinion. Think of it closer to a persuasive essay than a review on the topic, which my ‘ Primers ’ are more-so meant for. Do Your Own Research applies for all my posts, but especially so with these. Another note: a fair amount of this post is inspired by, and repeats many of the points, in Michael Bronstein’s essay on black
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