Why AI Won't Cure Cancer by Thinking Harder | Max Agency
AI can't cure cancer by reasoning alone; models lack physical-world grounding and must run real experiments.
“They're still going to have to kind of interface with the real world and generate data because we haven't generated enough data to to understand all of the science yet.”
A speaker argues that scientific breakthroughs like curing cancer are bottlenecked by both model capability gaps and the difficulty of real-world experimentation, especially translating bench experiments into lab automation where little training data exists. It matters because it tempers hype around 'reasoning' AI, framing near-term progress as humans and agents working in concert rather than models solving science by thinking harder.