Amazing story on AI 🤖 and big pharma 💊💰:
This week I interviewed a bright AI researcher working for one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies.
I asked him why he wants to leave his current position, so he told me the story:
His team has developed
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This week I interviewed a bright AI researcher working for one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies.
I asked him why he wants to leave his current position, so he told me the story:
His team has developed
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an accurate AI model predicting whether one of their expensive drugs would be effective for a patient or not.
The implications are dramatic: instead of wasting a whole year taking the pill to find out it doesn't work, AI predicts in advance the efficacy for each patient.
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The implications are dramatic: instead of wasting a whole year taking the pill to find out it doesn't work, AI predicts in advance the efficacy for each patient.
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How did the company react? They asked him to delete the project and never mention it to anyone.
The AI model would strip them of huge profits generated by millions who take the drug and find out it's not effective for them. Better let them suffer and pay the company instead.
The AI model would strip them of huge profits generated by millions who take the drug and find out it's not effective for them. Better let them suffer and pay the company instead.
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