A valuable application not mentioned here is streamlining synthesis and manufacturing to lower the costs of current drugs. That would positively impact millions more people than a new treatment for advanced pancreatic cancer. But there's not as much potential profit so....

After medicine, construction, flight, government, education and food production

> Drug discovery is extremely regulated process

I actually don’t think this is a strong argument.

AI does very well following rules.

Proving your drug works is hard, but an LLM can help you come up with the ideas.

Because human trials are so expensive that will be all the more reason to pre-screen with AI, like we already do with traditional simulations and things like proteome-wide off-target profiling.

There's no regulation on not doing a trial because your oracle machine told you it was an expensive dead end.