The ability to store and propagate information is fundamental to life, and research has shown a deep connection between chemistry and this ability to have genetic information. RNA also contains code similar to what is found in a computer program.
The podcast discusses the process of using natural language processing to extract details on chemical reactions and molecules, and creating a program in a chemical language that can be interpreted by a chemical computer to reproduce the same molecule consistently.
Evolution is really good at creating hardware with a stable baseline mode, but has the capacity to problem-solve when assumptions are not met. The human brain is not as special in this regard as we may think.
The field of drug design is becoming increasingly important in healthcare, with the ability to generate molecules and conduct in silico screening creating new possibilities for creating drugs with desirable properties.
The real worldness of things requires data sets and benchmarks that capture the unpredictable and edge cases to make significant progression in AI development.