Automation cannot solve all science questions.
“Yet as neuroscientist Anil Seth keenly observed, AlphaFold relies on the same underlying Transformer architecture as LLMs, and no one confuses AlphaFold with being a mind. Are we supposed to interpret that such an algorithm, instantiated on silicon chips, will comprehend the world in exactly the way we do, and communicate via our language with us so effectively as to describe the world as we understand it? Or should we instead believe it is maybe easier than we thought, after billions of years of the evolution of intelligence, to encode our own predictive and dynamic representational maps within such short spatial and temporal physical scales?”