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Human receives AI-designed virus for the first time (www.theregister.com)
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[–] 48 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

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

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  • [–] 22 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    "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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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    Considering the epigraph being

    Not to kill the human, of course – to kill the antibiotic-resistant bacteria causing their infection

    It does definitely seem intended

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  • [–] -1 points 2 weeks ago* (2 children)

    Great, but what about mutation? How stable are bacteriophages? Oh, yeah, it doesn’t matter because the transcribing proteins (in the host cell) cause errors that cause the mutations.

    Wee… Resident Evil speed run.

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