AI and Drug Discovery: Attacking the Right Problems
An advice for the VC among us. Don&#x27;t get fooled by all these startups promising to revolutionalize drug-discovery with AI. Go talk to scientists that are specialists but have no stakes in those approaches. I&#x27;ve seen so much money diverted from projects (many that turned out to work once sanity came back) just to pay for some over-confident startupers shitty solution... Yes AI will help drug discovery no doubt about that, but those companies telling you they can learn from existing data are lying, most data available is of really low quality, acquired in conditions adequate only for specific types of questions... One I know closely will promise you a knowledge graph based on a specific slice of drug sources that can supposedly answer every question. It will almost certainly end up like many of those companies that hire humans to do the work in the back and sell it to you as AI... And their source data which I know well is of really low quality so we can&#x27;t expect much more from their models either...