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I always got the sense that solutions for significant "unsolved problems in medicine" would be at least 10 years out from the point of total AI dominance in the theoretical sciences. Doing actual experiments is bottlenecked by real-life constraints (organisms are slow to grow and unpredictable, human laws won't let you build a factory to brute-force biology on a million test tube guinea pigs, let alone humans), and the theoretical side of biology is also relatively underdeveloped, to the point that "solve aging" seems as hard to formulate as Navier-Stokes would have been with 15th-century mathematics.
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