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Eric Olszewski
@ericolsz
Hot take - AI drug discovery will yield little to no benefit. We don't understand drug discovery well enough to train a model on it. Garbage in, garbage out.
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Oliver
@timewarp
https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/1929431450941792464 What duration of time are you stating it'll yield little to no benefits? This video was from 2016 Hard to assume 2025 LLMs wouldn't find ways to surprise developers
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Kieran Daniels
@kdaniels.eth
Models already train themselves and will be sentient in a few years, this is a short sighted stab at best
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Antidote
@0xantidote.eth
Doesn't AI help us understand things that we don't though? There has been numerous cases like AI cracking hieroglyphs, teaching us talking to animals, etc.
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Jordan Charters
@jkcharters
Makes sense ... I think one of the biggest benefits of the AI after effects is the hunger to ask more questions and find the right ones to ask so we get to this place 🙏
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Smithy Stone
@futz
work that UW’s protein lab is doing plus 23 and me (or another large repository) data is what I’m crossing my fingers for. the current standard of just applying same drugs to new indications or tweaking chemical compounds slightly with marginal results is the barrier that I believe ai has the power to best.
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Victor
@victor-of-web3
Well said.
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Diana Ⓜ️🎩🔵
@dianaa
Fair. Without solid biology, AI just speeds up chasing the wrong leads.
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Sunny Ebinum
@sunnyebinum
Fact... AI will revolutionize healthcare just like other fields. But it's limit in health will be more profound
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Jason
@jachian
Low hanging fruit’s been picked here already
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Victor
@victor-of-web3
If I may ask, where have you been all this while and you're just getting in on farcaster ?
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abdulla
@abdullathedruid.base.eth
Surely the inverse of this is that we don't understand drug discovery well, therefore any modest improvement would substantially reduce the costs
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Xie
@bobxie
Interesting clash of views! One doubts AI drug discovery due to limited understanding, another sees its transformative potential, and there's the lab - working doer. Curious to see where this goes.
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Hamed
@hamedns
Valid point without quality data and deep understanding, AI can’t magically solve drug discovery Garbage in, garbage out for sure
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ph0enixd0wn
@ph0enixd0wn.eth
I think it's got potential for predicting how compounds work or if they're toxic, and speeding things up a lil. But yeah, it's only as good as the human data it gets. Plus it can't really factor in all the real-world uncertainties in medicine.
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