How AI algorithms could help design new drugs - Futurity

You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. A new kind of AI algorithm--designed to work with a small amount of data--may be able to assist in the early stages of drug development. Artificially intelligent algorithms can learn to identify amazingly subtle information, enabling them to distinguish between people in photos or to screen medical images as well as a doctor. But in most cases their ability to perform such feats relies on training that involves thousands to trillions of data points. This means artificial intelligence doesn't work all that well in situations where there is very little data, such as drug development.