This specific study sounds relatively benign, but generative models for DNA sequences sounds like an incredibly dangerous technology to develop. If someone were to reproduce their study while including animal viruses in the training data, what would it be capable of? And what about after a few years of progress? Their phages have only 5400 base pairs, but the hepatitis virus has around 3000, and ebola only had ~19,00…
We have 5 known antibiotics. There are "MRSA" bacteria (which is a property of bacterial species, not a name for a particular species (anymore)) which don't care or react to about 4 of them and the 5th one is showing slightly reduced effectiveness already. Why? Presumably because, of course, the new government rules imposed on doctors for antibiotics are about saving money and NOT about fighting resistance. The 5th a…
Re: Artificial Intelligence used to design new viruses
#31What you say would make sense if phages designed from scratch with generative AI were the only solution to antibiotic resistance. That's obviously not the case.