[jamestimmins]

For all the hate that Google (rightly) gets for some of their work in other domains, I appreciate that they continue to put major resources behind using AI to try and save lives in medicine and autonomous driving.

Easy to take for granted, but their peer companies are not doing this type of long term investment.

[hodgehog11]

I think it's important that people know this. Despite what the other AI companies claim or put out as occasional PR, they have absolutely no real interest (through internal work or funding external researchers) in using AI to benefit science and humanity as a whole. They just want their digital god. As such, there is simply not enough funding for AI research with scientific applications. Consequently, many people in machine learning are not working in scientific applications, even though they really want to.

[sameermanek]

Someone has to do it. Big pharma has a lot of money and if AI can reduce their costs in human resources, they will be willing to put some of their profits aside to further the research in AI space.

Money wells are drying up across the trch Industry and ai companies will have to look for funds from adjacent industries like biotech and medicine.