About whether AI can make biology discoveries without doing lab experiments.
Has this happened?
Yes 3 (2%)Not sure 31 (25%)No 89 (72%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Hacker News has set AI a lot of challenges over the years. Which ones has it met?
About whether AI can make biology discoveries without doing lab experiments.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Maybe ASI can do the things you claim. Like figuring out why we have an appendix just by looking at our DNA.
Till then I don't think current crop of LLM will ever touch that capability. I'll believe it when I see it