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archduke.iago
Mar 1, 2011

Nostalgia used to be so much better.

BrainDance posted:

But then it'll also potentially teach itself biology and pharmaceutical chemistry and create a new cancer drug with synthesis instructions that night actually work.

This isn't going to happen. The rate limiting steps in pharmaceutical research are all related to experimental validation of efficacy, synthesis, and safety, none of which can be inferred by memorizing and regurgitating textbooks, or even papers.

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archduke.iago
Mar 1, 2011

Nostalgia used to be so much better.

BrainDance posted:

It's an example to illustrate a point, Christ.

And it's literally already happening
https://www.bcg.com/publications/2022/adopting-ai-in-pharmaceutical-discovery

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/02/15/1067904/ai-automation-drug-development/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7577280/

I am regurgitating (and not very seriously) my childhood friend's thoughts who does exactly that, doctorate in pharmaceutical chemistry who looks for novel cancer drugs at UofM. I'm not literally saying ChatGPT will cure cancer, but that emergent properties of AIs can allow them to discover patterns from the information we give it that we otherwise wouldn't for the creation of new things like potential medicines. Where, for a lot of it, the discovery itself is open to new suggestions.

Did you actually read the articles you posted? Or did you just Google "ai in drug discovery" and pick three hits on the first page? Nothing in them comes close to your example of an AI proposed novel molecule with a synthesis to boot, nor does the description from your friend. We *already* have far more proposed drugs then we have the capacity to test and approve, which is a problem that "AI" does nothing to solve.

The constant breathless misrepresentation of the capabilities of AI systems does nothing but further the interests of the programmers who develop them. If the computers are scary, dangerous, and capable, the only one who can reign them in are the caste of AI priests at the top.

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