Future House wants to build an AI biologist. They’re looking to a chemistry LLM for inspiration

A 10-year mission to build an AI biologist has just launched. The team from US not-for-profit moonshot Future House wants to create an autonomous research assistant to accelerate the rate of discovery and help tackle the key challenges facing humanity including antibiotic resistance, food security and climate change.

‘The fundamental bottleneck in biology today is not just data or computational power, but human effort, too: no individual scientist has time to design tens of thousands of individual hypotheses, or to read the thousands of biology papers that are published each day,’ explained Sam Rodriques, chief executive of the Future House project.