When AI Outperformed Physics Models
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Sreeram Kannan shares a surprising story from his research with a student who used RNNs to outperform top physics models in DNA sequencing. Sometimes AI can go beyond even the best scientific models! #AIBreakthrough #Genomics #DNASequencing #NanoporeTechnology #StatisticalLearning #PhysicsInResearch #GeneticScience #FutureOfScience #AIInHealthcare #InnovationInResearch
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and I'm like my student came in and we were doing this thing where you you have a DNA sequence going through a nanopore and you sequence what the the DNA stranders and uh you know we were doing like all these statistical learning algorithms we were working with actually like uh the the physicist who had the strongest uh empirical measurement of the gravitational constant G so I was very confident about our physics models about our inference models everything
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and then my student comes in and says I'm going to use like you know rnns to like do this thing like what kind of an idiot are you like you know it's maybe good for things which don't have mathematical models you know here we have like the absolute best model so like you know you're going to go knock yourself out waste your time two weeks later he beats our benchmark