Genesis Molecular AI CTO @edunov predicts biology is approaching its transformer moment, like machine translation in 2017 when one architecture uprooted everything: "I was doing machine translation in 2017 when transformers came up, and back in 2017, the machine translation field was this kind of pipeline of different models and tools stitched together in various complicated ways. Then transformers came up and uprooted everything. Bitter lesson." "We are going through this similar transition in the bio field. We are still at a stage where we have a lot of models, and our models are quite complicated. They consist of multiple different pieces. Sometimes it surprises me how those pieces even work together." "It's evolving very rapidly, and every day we see new papers coming up with people moving this field. I hope we'll achieve some level of breakthrough where all of those pieces suddenly connect together and work as a single system." @genesismolai