AI drug discovery reality check: 'give me everything that binds,' then filter for toxicity
burny_tech · x · 2026-10-21
A widely shared quip contrasts how people imagine AI drug discovery ("Claude, find me a cure to cancer. Do not make mistakes.") with how it actually works: "give me everything that binds," then have another bot check what the compounds do to human livers and keep what passes tox. The punchline captures the real pipeline — LLMs handle large-scale generation and triage, while wet-lab validation and toxicity screening remain the bottleneck.
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