Re: started in Jeopardy
"Do we really care how a model developed its understanding of which drugs "might" work? We already have robust tests for understanding which drugs do work, and we have a long and illustrious history of using drugs without a full understanding of *how* they work. So does it ultimately matter when the model is able to apply itself hundreds of thousands of times faster than any human?"
Yes, of course we care. We have a long history of using drugs without understanding how they work. We also have a long history of royally screwing up because of that, with a huge variety of examples that turned out not to work as thought, or even actively making things worse. One of the biggest things distinguishing modern medicine from the vast majority of that long history is that these days we make the effort to actually understand how and why things work, and to use that knowledge to improve things further.
Your last quoted sentence is probably the important part, and is precisely why so many people here are down on AI. If a computer model is able to blindly test things faster than humans could do it themselves, that's great. But that's nothing new; it's what computers have been doing for the better part of a century now, and is exactly what you would expect from them. It's not AI doing something amazing and new that brings a real difference in kind to the way things are done, it's just the same blind testing of lots of different things to find out which ones work. There's nothing wrong with that if it helps do the job faster, just don't pretend it's anything more than that.