[pharmaceutical giant Lilly CEO:AI may upend the entire industry] Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily reported on the 16th that David Ricks, CEO of pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly, said in an interview recently that artificial intelligence is "one of the most exciting technologies" he has seen for a long time, and has the potential to subvert the entire industry. "in my adult life, I can only think of two other things I can compete with, one of which is iPhone. The other is when we first started to imagine the Internet. " The company is investing in artificial intelligence and machine learning in areas such as drug discovery, natural language generation, robotic process automation and chatbots.