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While it's worrying and worth thinking about, the track record of using AI to generate pharmaceuticals to do good has been "mixed", except really it's just been
by rossdavidh 5y ago
While it's worrying and worth thinking about, the track record of using AI to generate pharmaceuticals to do good has been "mixed", except really it's just been a bust. It may someday do great things, but not much yet, and one silver lining is that AI-generated toxins are unlikely to improve on the human-designed ones, either.
"That is, I'm not sure that anyone needs to deploy a new compound in order to wreak havoc - they can save themselves a lot of trouble by just making Sarin or VX, God help us."
- starwind 5y ago> the track record of using AI to generate pharmaceuticals to do good has been "mixed", except really it's just been a bust. Researchers have only been using AI for drug development for like 6 years, I think it's way to early to call it a bust
- rossdavidh 5y agoI guess I should have said "...thus far".