Facebook wants to use Alto find drug combos

摘要

FACEBOOK claims that its new artificial intelligence can predict the way drugs interact with each other inside cells quicker than existing methods. It could enable speedier discovery of new drug combinations to treat illnesses like cancer, but some researchers say it may not translate into results that will be useful in humans. The system, developed by Facebook Al Research and the Helmholtz Centre in Munich, Germany, is claimed to be the first easy-to-use Al model able to estimate how different drugs will work in the body. "Drug research often takes half a decade to develop a compound," says Fabian Theis at the Helmholtz Centre, one of the authors of the work. He hopes the Al could speed things up.