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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• Deep learning has effectively solved the problem of predicting a protein's 3D structure from its sequence. EHElliot Hershberg29 Jun 2025
• AI-assisted biological research still depends on physical wet-lab work that remains a necessary bottleneck for now. KJKatelyn Jetelina16 Sept 2026
• Biology keeps turning up whole classes of things nobody knew existed, and that is what defeats attempts to model it. DLDerek Lowe19 Sept 2024
• The AI research cycle from idea to experiment will likely soon be 10x faster, but that may not make researchers 10x more productive in the field's net understanding. NLNathan Lambert22 Sept 2026
• Most proteins have no known function, so there is no pile of solid data for a model to learn most of cell biology from. DLDerek Lowe19 Sept 2024

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