India, Nov. 13 -- Artificial general intelligence could accelerate the search for cures, enable construction in space and under the sea, and expand the limits of human knowledge, according to Ankiti Bose, founding partner of global investment firm Terra Invest.

"I am radically optimistic about AGI because I think it could help us solve problems that have defeated generations of brilliant people," Bose writes in a commentary published on the firm's website.

Bose is careful to distinguish today's tools from the more general systems she anticipates. She cites the 2024 AlphaFold 3 paper in Nature, which expanded structural prediction to complexes involving proteins, DNA, RNA and other molecules, while noting that a structural prediction "is...