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tim333yesterday at 5:58 PM1 replyview on HN

Re. disease cures I am hoping more for AlphaFold type stuff and simulating cells in silico rather than ChatGPT type LLMs. There is some progress like

>“There are people sitting in our office in King’s Cross, London, working, and collaborating with AI to design drugs for cancer. “That’s happening right now.” https://www.htworld.co.uk/news/research-news/isomorphic-labs...

and

>...enables researchers to move seamlessly from AI-generated sequences to functional antibodies in just days https://the-decoder.com/googles-ai-drug-discovery-spinoff-is...


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ted_dunningtoday at 12:07 AM

And none of that doesn't improve the throughput of the clinical trials. It just decrease the cost of coming up with things to put into trial.