The world is rapidly progressing in the fields of big data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, which are the main drivers of what many analysts have come to call the fourth industrial revolution, embodied in the increasing reduction of boundaries that existed until then between the physical, digital, and biological worlds.

Artificial intelligence helps make pharmaceutical research and the discovery of new drugs cheaper and more productive according to Julius Adelusi-Adeluyi. Pharmacists, pharmaceutical scientists, and health professionals in research and development in developing countries like Nigeria can in this world of big data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning and participate in the revolution that is happening before our very eyes.

In reality, artificial intelligence helps make pharmaceutical research and the discovery of new drugs cheaper and significantly more productive. Thus, researchers are realizing that in the time it would have taken to manually test the effectiveness of a handful of chemical molecules, with AI, it is possible to test several hundred different chemical molecules.