• Zen_Shinobi@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    These aren’t just any viruses, mind you: Omnii-1, the AI model publicly unveiled by Radical Numerics this week, was used to design viable bacteriophages, a type of virus that specifically infects bacteria.

    Clickbait title

    • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
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      “Receives” clues you into that it was part of medical treatment, but I can see you how would read it as clickbait, but I honesly don’t think it was intended to be so.

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      True, but it is news that should give us all pause. Imagine what they could do with AI+CRISPR gene editing, which is also a virus. Probably not something good.

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    Brilliant. As antibiotics becomes useless, those bacteriophages will be next major medical tools.