Beyond Medical AI and AI Drug Discovery: Why Biomedicine Needs World Models

Over the past decade, AI in medicine has mostly moved through two major waves. The first wave was medical AI. It helped machines read, structure, summarize, and predict from medical data: radiology image recognition clinical note extraction risk prediction medical question answering triage support clinical documentation patient record summarization The second wave is AI drug discovery. It tries to accelerate the discovery of intervention tools: target discovery molecular generation prot...