How ‘New Science’ Is Changing Healthcare
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Using Machine Learning to Identify Drugs That Look Healthy
i said why don't we also train a very basic machine learning classifier, and let's actually go head-to-head with people and computers? The human scientists developed a scoring system to say, these cells look healthy, or these cells look sick. And then the team trained a machine learning program to use the same scoring system. At the end, we picked the best drugs that the machine identified that made the cells look healthy and the best drugs people identified. We were super surprised when we unveiled the results in lab meeting. i remember the person who was leading that study standing up there and saying, we actually made it worse.
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