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AI DISCOVERS NOVEL CANCER DRUG, OR DID IT?

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Google recently published an announcement that its Gemma model had discovered a new potential cancer pathway. It's important to note that the model didn't invent or theorize a method to discover potential drug candidates - the entire construction of the experiment was imagined and executed by humans. The model was used to probabilistically narrow a set of potential candidates to a manageable set that could be inspected by human review. Humans still possess a reasoning capability that is not present in any current AI system.