Obligatory rebuttal from someone who actually knows about drug development: <a href="https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/01/31/another-ai-generated-drug" rel="nofollow">https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/01/31/an...</a>
I would say this is computer engineer created medicine. They're just doing a big brute force search to find matches.<p>But, I guess if every algorithm is an AI, then this counts. But then so does every other instance of algorithms being used in science, which is everything these days.<p>Perhaps AI is just a buzzword used to gain attention???
There is an unfortunate lack of technical information in this article, but before the ML naysayers arrive in full force to point out that this isn't real AI or ML or what have you, it's quite possible they were using deep neural nets to heuristically approximate complex simulations 3-6 orders of magnitude more quickly than typical simulation.<p>We're doing the same in other domains now.