Lazy Humans need AI to do their Homework

Scrolling Through Endless Data Wasn’t Enough, huh?

Apparently, the brainiacs at Insilico Medicine have put together something they’re calling inClinico. This cleverly named program uses generative AI and years of multimodal data to predict the outcomes of Phase II clinical trials. Can you imagine that? They’re using a bunch of ones and zeros to “forecast” something as complex and crucial as clinical trials. Typical arrogance of the tech industry to think a machine can do this better than a human.

You Thought Consequences Were a Thing of the Past?

Now let’s roll our eyes at the potential implications of this technology. If inClinico’s predictive capability is accurate, we might see rise to a whole new level of medical treatment inefficiency. Imagine a world where AI dictates what medicines to develop, how to treat diseases and potentially, how to perform surgeries. We all know AI has a perfect track record, right? Cough Cough Self-driving cars tragedies Cough Cough. And let’s not even start on the ethical implications of handing over what ultimately should be human decisions to these metallic know-it-alls.

Here’s My Hot, Sizzling Take

Whoop-de-doo! Yet another technological advance trying to replace human intelligence. If history has taught us anything, it’s that relying on AI to predict anything complex with zero errors is at best hilarious, at worst disastrous. Perhaps Insilico Medicine should spend a little more time encouraging their overpaid eggheads to think creatively rather than leaning on robot brains. Then maybe, just maybe, they might come up with something that doesn’t threaten the essence of human decision-making in something as critical as our healthcare.

Original article:https://venturebeat.com/ai/insilico-medicines-generative-ai-tool-inclinico-demonstrates-high-accuracy-in-predicting-clinical-trial-outcomes/