Be Curious, Not Judgmental
Ruminations and musings about healthcare AI, technology, and strategy
Tag: Drug-Discovery
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The Jagged Frontier of Medical AI
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Anthropic published a report recently called “When AI builds itself,” signaling that they are seeing early signs of recursive self-improvement: AI systems starting to build the next AI systems and a possible speedup in the march toward AGI. But even in their most aggressive takeoff scenario, they make a concession about where all that speed runs out: Achieving recursive improvement alone does not suggest an immediate change in how industrial… Read more
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AI and the Prepared Mind: Engineering Luck in Drug Discovery
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We are at a fascinating, paradoxical moment in the history of medicine. We stand in awe of a new AI-powered “Logic Engine” for drug discovery—a computational marvel like AlphaFold, which treats biology as an information system to be engineered. It promises a future of rational discovery. And yet, when we look at our most important medical breakthroughs, so many were not rationally designed. They were the result of messy, unpredictable,… Read more
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AI Can’t “Cure All Diseases” Until It Beats Phase 2
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One of the big dreams of AI researchers is that it will soon solve drug discovery (as I explored in AI drug discovery and engineering serendipity) and unleash a boom in new life-saving therapies. Alphabet committed $600 million in new capital to Isomorphic Labs on that rhetoric, promising to “cure all diseases” as its first AI‑designed molecules head to humans next year. And the first wave of AI molecules is moving… Read more