Speeding drug discovery with AI and big data
It takes more than $2.5 billion and 15 years on average to develop a new drug. But some people say there's a way to cut costs and speed that up: Use artificial intelligence, cloud computing, IoT, high-powered computing, and big data. #cososcience
https://www.hpe.com/us/en/insights/articles/speeding-drug-discovery-with-ai-and-big-data-1802.html
@estherschindler Drug companies will, of course, utilize this marvelous capability to develop more pills for us to take every day so that we can get better boners and eat Italian food without heartburn.
@lennyliebmann ...and also to save some lives. Or so I like to think.
Companies may be evil. But scientists rarely are.
@lennyliebmann Hey I've been a health food and alternate medicine person since the 70s or 80s. And I can cite stats about how big pharma has done ill in the world.
But I've seen lives saved due to the RIGHT medicine existing, too.
@estherschindler It has nothing to do with evil or good. It's how pharma works in a world of strictly capitalist incentives.
"Selling Sickness" might be a good read.