People need to know how to use AI now

With the implementation of advancing technologies in industry comes the parallel need for suitable upskilling of the workforce – but this doesn’t as yet always pan out, and in today’s pharmaphorum podcast COO of Enthought Mike Connell discusses the growing skills gap in R&D in life sciences and the 80/20 rule with web editor Nicole Raleigh, as well as the need for correct education of people and machines, both.

There are a lot of different kinds of problems in R&D, which are assisted by a lot of different kinds of tools. And with those tools comes training and certification – incidental complexities. GenAI, however, can help in this and many regards.

Commenting upon AlphaFold2 and its importance in drug discovery and development, as well as other predictive models, Connell also addresses the hype (and myths) behind this type of technology, warning against over- and under-predicting the future horizon.

However, subjectivity and bias are a fundamental problem yet to be correctly amended, says Connell, and still to be guarded against.

You can listen to episode 148a of the pharmaphorum podcast in the player below, download the episode to your computer, or find it - and subscribe to the rest of the series - in iTunes, Spotify, Amazon Music, Podbean, and pretty much wherever you get your other podcasts!