Why go for the cures right?
Paywalled source
https://ft.trib.al/Uk6VCRG
I'm guessing it created it the same way i created a giant eight limbed creature called an Octophant, using a piece of paper and a pencil.
It does not make it exist.
Why go for the cures right?
That's literally what a bacteriophage is.
For the uninitiated, the scientists created bacteriophages, viruses that eat bacteria and are being studied as a way to cure bacterial diseases without using antibiotics. Non-paywalled article: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/aug/06/safety-fears-as-scientists-make-first-viruses-designed-by-ai
The title is misleading. It wasn’t an LLM, but a bespoke, dedicated system.
And yes, I know that’s sort of “AI,” but these days when that word is used, the average person equates it to ChatGPT or Gemini or whatever text chatbot they’re familiar with.
This basically has nothing to do with that. Scientists have been making models for design and data synthesis forever.
Don't fucking post images of headlines.
Find a source that isn't paywalled and link to the article. Or don't post anything at all.
"Grok. Engineer me a highly infectious virus. Optimize it to have high lethality to ethnic groups other than my own, but low lethality to my own ethnic group."
This world is cursed.
“My AI created a virus that cures all autoimmune diseases!”
*squint* “this is just HIV”
AI is a synthetic virus.
Umbrella Corporation is coming along nicely, I guess?
That graphic looks like the cover of an O'Reilly book
The first physical computer virus
AI SOLVES THE FERMI PARADOX
We really are the dumbest of species, aren't we?
does it actually exist or is it a "simulation" again
we've been using ai for decades, just not like the llm ai
Well, this IS an important milestone towards curea for many illnesses and problems, and yes, this is a field where AI could actually accel and be a great tool
I have a long list of issues with AI, but this ain't on it.
"AI cloned Will Smith and then filmed him eating spaghetti!" ...the media are fucking lost when it comes to AI news. They're just creating propaganda at this point.
Ehh this is a milestone. If you can engineer a virus you can also engineer a cure.
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