An AI-Generated Drug?

There were some headlines the other day about the "first AI-discovered drug", so that should send us to the work in question to see what's going on. The company in question is called Deep Genomics, and here's what its founder has to say: "Making drugs has traditionally been a gambling game. Big Pharma is throwing a stick into the tree and seeing what happens," Frey told FierceBiotech. "It's like the Big Pharma companies come into a casino, put a million-dollar coin into a slot machine and with some probability like 10% or something, they get a win." Instead of gambling to get at the fruit higher up on the tree, Frey built Deep Genomics, a company using artificial intelligence to discover new disease targets as well as the best compounds to drug them.