AXIOS January 9, 2024
Laboratory “copilots” and automated labs are AI’s latest contribution to speeding up the development of new drugs, chemicals and materials.
Why it matters: Scientific discovery itself must speed up if the world is to address its challenges — from climate change to personalized treatments for cancer — fast enough to make a difference.
- In scientific research, “manual effort is not scalable,” writes Microsoft Health Futures’ Hoifung Poon in the launch edition of New England Journal of Medicine AI.
What’s happening: AI has already proven useful in identifying possible new chemical and materials compounds. Now it’s helping to speed up and scale lab experiments.
- A new category of lab assistant — AI lab copilots — can now make...
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