That seems plenty big enough to merit throwing similar ML techniques at designing a pill with no active ingredient but that passed various kinds of basic tests for whether a medication is genuine.
Ahm… the way we test pills that are FDA approved is by feeding them to humans and seeing if they have the desired effect upon disease-related markers based on assays that imperfectly capture those markers.
So, this is already happening I’m afraid, no drugs are designed to cure anything in particular, they are designed to optimize for the marker we can test which lead us to think they will pass the tests that say they are a cure for a diseases.
Drugs that are arguably not very useful or even harmful (e.g. statins) have been designed this way already.
Ahm… the way we test pills that are FDA approved is by feeding them to humans and seeing if they have the desired effect upon disease-related markers based on assays that imperfectly capture those markers.
So, this is already happening I’m afraid, no drugs are designed to cure anything in particular, they are designed to optimize for the marker we can test which lead us to think they will pass the tests that say they are a cure for a diseases.
Drugs that are arguably not very useful or even harmful (e.g. statins) have been designed this way already.