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Guy in his basement creates a drug to treat Alzheimer's disease using AI

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Re: Guy in his basement creates a drug to treat Alzheimer's disease using AI

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Any subject matter experts care to chime in with your gut feeling about where this sits in the "promising potential treatment" to "AI psychosis" spectrum?

It's closer right now to interesting hobby project from a guy who's trained in chemistry, like a guy who's a mechanic keeping a project car. Maybe he publishes and it goes somewhere, I have a feeling getting approval for trials will be challenging with his setup as it is now. I do like the "do chemistry the old fashion way" ethos though. I wish he added a blurb about why he's doing it this way

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Re: Guy in his basement creates a drug to treat Alzheimer's disease using AI

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I know too litle biology to be sure this make sense, but I've seen too many crackpots in math and phisics recently...

I studied some chemistry. The photo of the lab is interesting. It looks real (not AI generated). It has a few vertical condensers and separatory funnel. The vertical connections make sense, but the whole setup makes no sense, like a display of cool equipment. My question is: Why one of the condensers is green?!?!

> the development of PAC-832 was catalyzed by various modern technologies, most notably liquid-handling robotics

Is there a photo of the robot? The photo only shows 1990 equipment.

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