Derek Lowe
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Medicinal chemist. He has worked on preclinical drug discovery in the pharmaceutical industry since 1989, across several companies and therapeutic areas, and…
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Updated 2026-05-27 -
16 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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The hypotheses AI 'co-scientist' systems are producing are ones the literature already contains, and the publicity around them does not say so. (opens korrents.com)
“I think it’s good that the system identified the mechanisms that it did, but I don’t think that the paper does enough to point out that none of these ideas are without precedent - in some cases, a lot of precedent.”
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There are few clear-cut cases in biopharma today where buying an AI system is obviously worth it. (opens korrents.com)
“At the moment, there are in fact not very many slam-dunk gotta-get-me-some-of-that-AI decisions out there in our business.”
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AI will not produce a big breakthrough in biological understanding any time soon, because biology has nothing like the clean, complete, high-quality data that made protein-structure prediction work. (opens korrents.com)
“So for these reasons, I (unfortunately) do not expect any big AI-driven breakthroughs in biological understanding any time soon.”
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The hypotheses AI 'co-scientist' systems are producing are ones the literature already contains, and the publicity around them does not say so. (opens korrents.com)