AI cracks superbug problem in two days that took scientists years

[LiberalArkie]

A complex problem that took microbiologists a decade to get to the bottom of has been solved in just two days by a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool.

Professor José R Penadés and his team at Imperial College London had spent years working out and proving why some superbugs are immune to antibiotics.

He gave "co-scientist" - a tool made by Google - a short prompt asking it about the core problem he had been investigating and it reached the same conclusion in 48 hours.

He told the BBC of his shock when he found what it had done, given his research was not published so could not have been found by the AI system in the public domain.

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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyz6e9edy3o

[Callie1979]

1. AI may be what breaks the Bitcoin code.

If that happens, game over
For all those who say "it cant be hacked!" I say anything created by man can be deciphered by man
But with all the mystery behind the creator/s of BTC, maybe the only theory that makes any sense is that aliens invented it & disappeared.

[intrepidity]

7. Quantum computers will do that one

There's a big prize ($100B) out there for the first Q-computer to hack the original bitcoin wallet.

[Callie1979]

10. I expect that to occur as soon as the BTC I have is worth 200k

Like the next DAY

[Irish_Dem]

2. AI could be used for such good.

But also for pure evil.

[eppur_se_muova]

11. Not to mention sheer ineptitude. GIGO, with more impact than ever. nt

[Irish_Dem]

12. Yes

We face a number of existential threats now.

[Phoenix61]

3. AI is fantastic at crunching data, lots and lots of data very quickly. nt

[Klarkashton]

4. It has yet to solve any "shew that" physics problems

From 1800s books that I have pasted in. I think it's because it's never seen them before.
It tries and gives the wrong answer every time.

[BootinUp]

5. Why would I believe such a tale? Seriously. Nt

[bucolic_frolic]

6. It don't know what i had for dinner last night

Does it know how to defeat Musk-Trump?

[intrepidity]

8. Yes, this is the task we need to put AI on to. nt

[cynical_idealist]

9. one's that's better than their master ai.