Chief scientist of major corporation can’t handle criticism of the work he hypes

Re:Chief scientist of major corporation can’t handle critici... by lesuorac on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @12:15PM (#33721856)

If you can discover a drug faster and that drug is as useful as dirt does it matter?

This isn't my field but I could grab a bunch of random jars off a shelf and pour them into capsules. No matter how fast I can do this won't improve medical outcomes for patients.

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Re:Chief scientist of major corporation can’t handle critici... by dekhn on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @12:19PM (#33721928)

you just described how modern high content screening, which has been one of the most useful techniques for finding drug leads, works. Since lead-finding is a bottleneck in the drug discovery process, it has been highly effective because it can measure things that are not currently computationally accessible.

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Re:Chief scientist of major corporation can’t handle critici... by freejazz on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @01:08PM (#33722530)

is a bottleneck != is THE bottleneck

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Re:Chief scientist of major corporation can’t handle critici... by dekhn on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @01:23PM (#33722729)

It's the first bottleneck. Generally, if you can't pass the first bottleneck, all the remaining bottlenecks don't matter.

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Re:Chief scientist of major corporation can’t handle critici... by lesuorac on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @01:44PM (#33723020)

I don't follow.

Wasn't your claim that the AI process hasn't been shown to generate a useful drug [1]?

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33720915

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