Modeling in Drug Metabolism for Drug Discovery and Development

摘要

You wake up in the morning. Amazon Alexa tells you that today is mostly cloudy but will rain at noon. She also reminds you to take your daily medications and to wish your sister happy birthday. You scroll through your Facebook feed and an ad appears that tells you a restaurant is now serving your favorite gingerbread pancakes. You start your car engine, and as you being to drive to work, Google Maps tells you an alternative route should save you 20 minutes. You arrive at your office and your boss asks you to shop for a 3D printer for a "delicious" project, printing real cakes. You find a good-ranking model at Amazon, which also automatically recommends all of the cake-printing supplies you need. This type of thing is happening every day to most of us. It is artificial intelligence (Al), or at least, the start of an Al era. Alexa, or Apple's Siri, uses speech recognition designed to understand a user's request and return a response. Facebook's Al knows who you are from photos and videos you've uploaded and conversations with friends, and decides which news feeds, friend recommendations, and ads you receive. By definition, artificial intelligence is a computer-aided modeling process that solves cognitive problems such as learning and pattern recognition, which are aspects of human intelligence.