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DRUG DISCOVERY HAS NO MAGIC WANDS

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AI is set to transform human health. However, it will not be a magic wand: we don't understand human biology well enough for a clever enough reasoner to find the cures hidden in what we know. Aimed at biology we barely understand, AI will mostly help us generate failures faster. The path to real cures is to measure biology in the right way and use AI to derive novel insights from those measurements.