I would bet that all the data needed in principle to, say, find a cure for Alzheimers is already available online—if only we knew how to effectively leverage it.
I agree. If “effectively leverage it” means a superintelligence with unlimited compute, then this is a somewhat weak statement. I would expect that a superintelligence given the human genome would figure out how to cure all diseases. I would expect it to be able to figure out a lot from any book on biology. I would expect it to be able to look at a few holliday photos, figure out the fundamental equations of reality, and that evolution happened on a planet ,that it was created by evolved intelligences with tech ect. From this, it could design nanobots programmed to find humans and cure them, even if it had no idea what humans look like, it just programs the nanobots to find the most intelligent life forms around.
I agree. If “effectively leverage it” means a superintelligence with unlimited compute, then this is a somewhat weak statement. I would expect that a superintelligence given the human genome would figure out how to cure all diseases. I would expect it to be able to figure out a lot from any book on biology. I would expect it to be able to look at a few holliday photos, figure out the fundamental equations of reality, and that evolution happened on a planet ,that it was created by evolved intelligences with tech ect. From this, it could design nanobots programmed to find humans and cure them, even if it had no idea what humans look like, it just programs the nanobots to find the most intelligent life forms around.