By Ross Youngs, 
March 24, 2023.

Engineers Versus Scientists ChatGPT

Just some leading questions to ChatGPT with responses and pushback. A fun Friday read. I am focused on executing a new technology to bring the best small molecules into drug discovery research, and funding sources always ask what is your clinical proof – or what is your derisked drug ready to go into the clinic. This makes it a chicken-and-egg issue because execution is the first step to obtaining proof. So it is always a trick question. The problem is that we have lined up some of the biggest academic and several commercial institutions to screen and test our small molecules from natural unculturable microbes and microbiomes, but investors are inevitably scientists, and they typically hate to try anything new with the money they manage unless you have a proven scientific background and are “blank-checkable.” So just to get my head around the difference in how engineers and scientists think – I reached into AI from ChatGPT.

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