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Using computers and simulations is good, actually.
Vast parameter spaces cannot be robustly explored by experimental means. Medicine has been using ML for a while now and for good reason. AI and ML is much more than LLMs or whatever the current poster child is.
Using narrow models and simulations without adequately testing in live humans or monitoring against side effects or investigating problems is how you get Phen Fen and Oxycotin.
Leaving us with "cutting edge" pharmaceuticals with all sorts of unexpected (or deliberately omitted) hazards.
You still have to do clinical trials, even after you've built up a backlog of possibilities.
Source on how oxycotton was approved without trial and on an AIs word? Timeline just doesn't add up for me.
Oxycontin* and it's been around since 1916, user is just talking out their ass.