my partner’s company hired a CTO about 7 months ago in a bid to try to shore up their bullshit claims of using AI to help discover better drug building blocks quicker.
They made that claim from the inception of the company but never once did they actually have a working AI model that produced results even equal with pure chance.
The new CTO came in and said he could automate away the jobs of the medicinal chemists who are the ones who use their insight and knowledge to tweak molecules to actually find and test drug candidates. There was mutiny across the whole company as nobody in their right mind believes that it can be done, especially not in a cost effective way that isn’t just blindly brute forcing.
Now the company is on its last breath as they’ve laid off everyone except the top brass who are praying someone buys their non existent AI platform so they can get a little golden parachute.
my partner’s company hired a CTO about 7 months ago in a bid to try to shore up their bullshit claims of using AI to help discover better drug building blocks quicker.
They made that claim from the inception of the company but never once did they actually have a working AI model that produced results even equal with pure chance.
The new CTO came in and said he could automate away the jobs of the medicinal chemists who are the ones who use their insight and knowledge to tweak molecules to actually find and test drug candidates. There was mutiny across the whole company as nobody in their right mind believes that it can be done, especially not in a cost effective way that isn’t just blindly brute forcing.
Now the company is on its last breath as they’ve laid off everyone except the top brass who are praying someone buys their non existent AI platform so they can get a little golden parachute.
AI is the new snake oil.