DeepMind CEO Says AI Could Shorten Drug Discovery From Years to Months

(Bloomberg) — Discovering new medicines takes years and is marred by an astronomical failure rate. The Nobel Prize-winning head of Alphabet Inc.’s artificial intelligence lab says the technology will soon trim that time to under a year.  

“In the next couple of years, I’d like to see that cut down in a matter of months, instead of years,” Demis Hassabis said in an interview with Bloomberg Television. “That’s what I think is possible. Perhaps even faster.”

Hassabis runs Google DeepMind, the company’s AI unit, as well as Isomorphic…