04-24-2024, 09:28 AM
Relax, on the very day that the MTL-backed announcement came out, another AI enabled drug developer, benevolent AI, announced it was cutting 30% of its staff and closing a site in the US: https://www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/be...-gap-looms
(speaking for myself, and not my employer here) AI is a tool, nothing more and nothing less. It has the promise of making drug development more efficient, as right now about 1 in 20 drugs that makes it into clinical trials winds up being approved. But the hype has gotten way ahead of the results, and my guess is that while the industry will get better at incorporating AI into workflows and AI can help improve success rates, we are not going to have robot overlords creating a humanity-killing scenario.
BC
(speaking for myself, and not my employer here) AI is a tool, nothing more and nothing less. It has the promise of making drug development more efficient, as right now about 1 in 20 drugs that makes it into clinical trials winds up being approved. But the hype has gotten way ahead of the results, and my guess is that while the industry will get better at incorporating AI into workflows and AI can help improve success rates, we are not going to have robot overlords creating a humanity-killing scenario.
BC