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PandaCommando69 t1_j5i3o5n wrote

The AI drug revolution is going to be amazing. Eventually there should be no disease we cannot cure, and death will become optional.

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PolarsGaming t1_j5ijuri wrote

Read it said it was just a test no follow ups

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ihateshadylandlords t1_j5jm281 wrote

>Insilico said it’s currently not interested in pursuing clinical trials for the potential drug; it’ll leave that for other researchers to follow now that the molecule has been publicly identified. Instead, the main purpose of the study was to serve as a “proof of concept” of what is now possible with AI, said Alán Aspuru-Guzik, a professor of computer science and chemistry at U of T, director of the Acceleration Consortium and the co-principal investigator who led the study.

So there won’t be any follow up with this drug.

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civilrunner t1_j5k6h9s wrote

I'm not sure that was AI. They sequenced the genome of COVID rather quickly, which is a rather small genome. They then picked a protein target and grabbed the RNA for it and then threw that into their mRNA vaccine system that was already developed. I don't think they used much AI in that process.

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agsarria t1_j5kivep wrote

So what's the point, the ai just output some garbage, but without any more test it's worthless, we don't know if it's garbage or something really useful...

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duffmanhb t1_j5ksrpu wrote

It’s wild how a decade ago protein folding was an insane problem to solve. People were waiting together cloud super computers just to solve a single protein. Then 2 years ago Google releases a program that can do any and all folding almost instantly.

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