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Can artificial intelligency revolutionize drug discovery?

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Artificial intelligency can bring speed and reliability to drug discovery process. It represents an additional intelligence, which in any case can replace the strategic and logic creative insight of the medicinal chemist who remains the architect and molecule master designer. In terms of drug design, artificial intelligency, deep learning machines, and other revolutionary technologies will match with the medicinal chemist’s natural intelligency, but for sure never go beyond. This manuscript tries to assess the impact of the artificial intelligency on drug discovery today.

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Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille (IBDM), Aix Marseille University and CNRS-UMR 7288 are greatly acknowledged for their financial support. We thank Mrs. Mair Richards for the manuscript’s English revision.

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Curmudgeon Corner is a short opinionated column on trends in technology, arts, science and society, commenting on issues of concern to the research community and wider society. Whilst the drive for super-human intelligence promotes potential benefits to wider society, it also raises deep concerns of existential risk, thereby highlighting the need for an ongoing conversation between technology and society. At the core of Curmudgeon concern is the question: What is it to be human in the age of the AI machine? -Editor.

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Kraus, Jl. Can artificial intelligency revolutionize drug discovery?. AI & Soc 35, 501–504 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-019-00892-0

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