AI agents in healthcare
One of the most exciting prospects for AI development is the possibility of having autonomous systems capable of conducting scientific discoveries on their own. This new paradigm is referred to as the AI scientist. Throughout this book, we have seen some examples of systems that are thought to be in accordance with this idea (ChemCrow, the virtual lab, and so on). In this section, we will discuss this paradigm in more detail: where the research is heading, the challenges faced, and future developments.
The idea behind an AI agent is to exploit LLMs in combination with tools (agents), as we have seen so far. In the future, researchers would like to add an experimental platform (an autonomous system able to conduct experiments by itself) to these systems so that they can conduct experiments independently. The complexity of biology could then be approached in a series of actionable tasks, where an LLM could break down a problem into a series of subtasks and...
