7 comments

  • SimianSci 9 minutes ago
    Ai labs look to be desperate to try and stave off the cooling hype that looks to be snowballing in the industry right now. These next few months are going to be crucial to their potential survival and future.

    Its not surprising to me that this press release looks half-baked.

  • jostmey 51 minutes ago
    The problem was never generating leads. The bottleneck is validated results. It’s performing clinical trials proving efficacy. And this is where I think AI will have the biggest impact—-helping scientist, navigate study complexity and regulatory burden
    • pebbly_bread 38 minutes ago
      If you can increase the fidelity of your research model (in-silico, murine, etc) to real life humans then there are fewer false leads.
    • qurren 36 minutes ago
      The real problem is generating leads that are more likely to yield positive results than throwing darts at hypotheses.

      That's what top-tier scientists are good at.

    • sagentra 24 minutes ago
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    • throw310822 33 minutes ago
      "The problem was never generating leads" is an absurd statement without any reference to the quality of those leads. Ideally you want a system able to generate one more lead, the correct one.
  • suddenlybananas 6 minutes ago
    Why waste so much space on a chart on whether "human experts preferred distributed-agent reports over single-agent reports"? I thought we were supposed to be curing alzheimer's and cancer!
  • dude250711 19 minutes ago
    OpenAI in sciences: "We have bitten off a bit of each of these apples - you guys finish eating them, because that is what you are best at - finishing half-eaten food. May we have a $2T valuation, please?"
  • coppercrisp62 53 minutes ago
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  • Noaidi 23 minutes ago
    I am sorry, but if you still have stupid humans these leads will end up going the same place all the leads go. Nowhere.

    So what if DCTN1 is linked to Alzheimer's? All they will do is invent a drug to mess with the enzyme and it might only still help a small percentage of people and no one will be able to afford it.

    It is well know that diet plays a large role in Alzheimer's[1] and is largely an issue of personal genetics and environment.

    [1] https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/07/alzheimers-st...