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Researchers at Stanford/Arc Institute just created the first AI-generated, entirely new viruses from scratch that successfully infect and kill bacteria, a breakthrough in computational biology. (arcinstitute.org)
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[–] artifex@piefed.social 18 points 6 days ago

Ah , I see were reading today’s issue of “What Could Possibly Go Wrong” magazine.

[–] notsosure@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 days ago

This opens up completely new and revolutionary possibilities! Where’s my face mask…?

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 1 points 6 days ago

"Oh no, antibiotic-resistant pathogens are going to kill lots of people!"

"Good news, with AI we can generate custom bacteriophages, the pathogens won't be able to overcome that."

"Oh no, AI is going to kill us all with bacteriophages somehow!"

Why do we even bother?

[–] TheAgeOfSuperboredom@lemmy.ca -1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

My last experience with "AI" was last week with Claude where it tried to generate some Typescript that didn't even pass the type checker.

I guess we have a new domain for vibe coding.

[–] m532@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 6 days ago

What does this have to do with protein-folding neural networks?