Big Pharma and Biotech are Betting Big on AI to Speed Drug Discovery
Developing new medicines isn’t for the faint of heart. On average, it takes about a decade of research — and an expenditure of $2.6 billion — to shepherd an experimental drug from lab to market. And because of concerns over safety and effectiveness, only about 5 percent of experimental drugs make it to market at all. […]
Machine learning is a field that threatens to both augment and undermine exactly what it means to be human, and it’s becoming increasingly important that you—yes, you—actually understand it. I don’t think you should need to have a technical background to know what machine learning is or how it’s done. Too much of the discussion about […]