The drugs advertised as having AI-discovered targets are aimed at targets people already knew about.

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  AI models generate more commercially viable ideas than groups of humans, but those ideas are highly similar to each other.

  Mollick reports that models generate more commercially viable ideas than groups of humans, though highly similar to each other. Lowe says the drugs advertised as having AI-discovered targets are aimed at targets people already knew about. Similar-to-each-other and already-known are the same finding met at different ends of a pipeline, and only one of them is being sold as a breakthrough.

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