The following was submitted to the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry as a mini-perspective for their special issue on AI in drug discovery. I leave it to the reader to judge whether they were right to reject it forthwith.

The breadth of the field of artificial intelligence (AI) in drug discovery …

Machine learning and computational modeling remain some of the hottest topics in both the academic and industrial biology and healthcare communities. Here I’ll take a closer look at some problems with how we conceive of the use of AI and machine learning in biology, and how shifting our mode …