alt Hacker NewsDrugmaker CEOs opinions are irrelevant, last month the mathematicians saw it and understood it, what AI is for better and worse, and now scientists are just waiting for the other shoe to drop. It will be a mix of hype and revolution, dismissing the former does not mean being blind to the latter.
update: I really love that within 2 minutes the response to a genuine comment is to downvote/deplatform it, how inimical to rational disagreement and fragile pseudointellectualism our (supposedly STEM) community has become.
Math is a completely different ball game than drug discovery. AI has been used in discovery for decades. Chemical and biological data and simulations are much fuzzier than code and proofs, it's literally quantum mechanics when you get down to it.