BenevolentAI cannot discover unstudied targets; it only repurposes existing knowledge
Jerome Pesenti · Using AI to Accelerate Drug Discovery // Jerome Pesenti, BenevolentAI (FirstMark's Data Driven) · Oct 26, 2017 · at 25:54
Jerome Pesenti, CEO of BenevolentTech at BenevolentAI, clarifies the core capabilities and technical constraints of their AI biological knowledge graph.
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“We don't come up with new targets that have never been looked at. For example, the system by definition cannot do that. So it's always about repurposing some existing knowledge.”
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