First Human Trials Begin for AI-Designed Drug
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Forget college essays. Artificial intelligence has much bigger fish to fry.
Biotech firm Insilico Medicine said Monday that it entered an "AI-discovered-and-designed" drug into Phase 2 clinical trials involving human subjects, a first for the industry. The robots: they may not be so bad after all.
(Artificially) Intelligent Design
AI optimists have long pointed to advances in drug development as a reason for bullishness, and it's easy to understand why: The sheer data-crunching and protein-identifying prowess of such systems could potentially cut development time in half, and development prices by even more, proponents often claim. In plain English: AI can complete complex math problems far faster than human scientists ever could. Thus, AI and ML tools could help develop 50 new drugs worth potentially $50 billion over the next decade, according to a Morgan Stanley report. ... '
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