Artificial intelligence: how can it be useful in drug discovery

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a new way of understanding medicine and drug discovery and enlarges many concepts in the pharmaceutical field: first of all, the analysis of a new chemical language that can be used for exploring the drug design, the differences between the AI subsets (Machine Learning and Deep Learning) and the advantages of the AI-based approaches. The second part of the thesis is related to the use of ai in the medical field: its role in the prediction of the adverse effects of drugs, the Sars-cov-2 pandemics, in guiding the clinical trials and in the discovery of new vaccines against the Covid-19 virus. Eventually this thesis focuses on the future perspectives of AI and gives an overview of how ai can be useful for creating a new drug.