We’re Teaching Robots and AI to Design New Drugs

It might sound like a concept from science fiction, but artificial intelligence is already facilitating the development process behind some pharmaceuticals.

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[aleesabarker]

I love that you made a video about this! I wrote my research paper on this topic last year, and it’s such a fascinating topic!

[UGNAvalon]

I love how this video subtly taught us the process of developing a new drug (from scratch), after drawing us in with robot scientists. ;D

[armas_ectos]

An adorable kitten cloud is no blunder.













It's a direct hit to my heart!

[ggj]

We are getting closer to creating Curie from Fallout 4.

[AbramSF]

Brings a whole new meaning to designer drugs.

[sheppardguitars]

Really nice to hear AI being talked about in a balanced and fair way. So often, the capabilities of AI are over stated or misrepresented. It is so, so, so important that the limitations of AI are talked about freely, (e.g. the fact that the AI doesn't know what a Tchaikovsky is) to avoid fear mongering.

[mmmkmmmkmmmmkmmmk]

Boston Dynamics' dog robot making and giving new drugs would be cute. Maybe dress them in a lab coat or just have a white paint scheme.

[osmia]

I'm really impressed by the Complexly logo - have seen it lots now but never took the time to tell you how satisfying it is to see the components coalesce into that nice big "C"
Kudos to the designer!

[PluTNYum]

I work for a company called BenevolentAI, in January our AI platform correctly identified an existing drug that could be used to treat covid-19 symptoms... Lily are now in human trials for it.

[woodamanrd]

Excited to see the safe psychotropic drugs that could be found because of this. Major therapeutic potential

[Bostonrain]

"they never have to duck out for coffee"

As I take a sip of my coffee..

[ketchup]

Bah, I'm a lab tech. The robot overlords can pry the pipette from my cold, dead hands!

[harvest]

Hey robot scientists, cure headaches.

[JamesM]

"The future looks kinda like a robot handing us a miracle pill."

Eat the ice cream.

[SmallAngryNerd]

I'm using this for a presentation in my machine learning class, thanks for making my research easier!

[williamoldaker]

This 100% reads more like a "scary" PSA, this is still good to know.

[artemiygolden]

Developing a potential drug is the fraction of the cost of the clinical trials, and this part AI can not accelerate. You should have mentioned that at the end with the numbers.
Great video!

[ricardoabh]

The Optimist: that’s incredible soon no more decease!
Me: teaching AI what chemical can kill us?

[EduardQualls]

@04:20 "researchers at the US company, Berg, grew cancerous and healthy cells from over a thousand donors in petri dishes"
*That's a lot of either some very large petri dishes, or very small donors, for them all to be in petri dishes!*

[krupanidhi]

Nice description of AI's importance in Drug discovery. Please continue.