Drug Discovery Has No Magic Wands - by Daphne Koller - a16z
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On AI, human biology, and what it will actually take to discover transformative new medicines
America | Tech | Opinion | Culture | Charts Today, we’re excited to share a guest post from Daphne Koller, Founder and CEO of insitro. For more from her, subscribe to insitro’s Substack here. The tech world has latched onto an intoxicating promise: build a superintelligence, and it will cure cancer, and every other disease as well. The logic is seductive. The human body is a system we can already read from and write to, so like other knowledge problems, a powerful enough AI should be able to solve disease. I fully believe that AI will eventually transform human health. It is why I’ve…
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