What the AI Research tells us vs what people are saying! If you read recent scientific reviews on artificial intelligence (AI) in the pharmaceutical industry, you get a clear message: AI is transforming drug discovery, clinical development, manufacturing, and safety.¹⁻⁵ If you talk to bench scientists, clinical teams, or data scientists over coffee, you often hear a more complicated story: pockets of impressive success, a lot of incremental improvements, and quite a few stall

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