AI will not produce a big breakthrough in biological understanding any time soon, because biology has nothing like the clean, complete, high-quality data that made protein-structure prediction work.

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  Understanding the biological machine is about five years away, not ten.

  Huang says understanding the biological machine is about five years away rather than ten. Lowe, who has spent a career in drug discovery, says AI will not produce a big breakthrough in biological understanding any time soon, because biology has not handed it the data to learn from. Five years and not any time soon are the same sentence with opposite signs.

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