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@sanqueue@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year ago

Using AI, researchers identify a new class of antibiotic candidates that can kill a drug-resistant bacterium

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Using AI, researchers identify a new class of antibiotic candidates that can kill a drug-resistant bacterium

phys.org

@sanqueue@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year ago
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Using a type of artificial intelligence known as deep learning, MIT researchers have discovered a class of compounds that can kill a drug-resistant bacterium that causes more than 10,000 deaths in the United States every year.
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  • @Tremble@sh.itjust.works
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    43•1 year ago

    Great; so this is all public domain knowledge since it was created with AI according to current law, right?

    • @guitarsarereal@sh.itjust.works
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      27•1 year ago

      Yeah, so the actual law is that if you didn’t do any work and just gave ChatGPT or Midjourney a prompt and it shat out a picture and then brag to the copyright office in your application that you didn’t do diddly squat, the work effectively had no human authors. If, instead, you build a new machine learning model, tune it for your specific problem, analyze the results, and furthermore, break new ground understanding how it solved your problem, and then you write the paper, in fact, you have tons of ownership over the work.

      The fact people can’t tell the difference between the two and are actually upvoting you kind of says a lot about how little most people understand this stuff.

      • @just_another_person@lemmy.world
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        -20•1 year ago

        I’m just downvoting you for being a smarmy prick. Not because your comment is inaccurate.

        • @guitarsarereal@sh.itjust.works
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          Would you also agree it’s rude to imply that this group of researchers, who actually advanced the state of the art in machine learning, are just a bunch of ChatGPT jockeys who don’t deserve credit for their work?

        • @barsoap@lemm.ee
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          10•1 year ago

          I hope you’re at least consistent and downvoted yourself, then.

        • @dwalin@lemmy.world
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          2•1 year ago

          Same :/

    • @roofuskit@lemmy.world
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      7•1 year ago

      I think those rulings have only applied to creative works. We’ll see.

      • LanternEverywhere
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        6•1 year ago

        This 100% is classified as a creative work. That’s why drugs are able to be patented in the first place.

    • @GBU_28@lemm.ee
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      4•1 year ago

      Depends, what was the training set / knowledge base?

    • @guitarsarereal@sh.itjust.works
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      deleted by creator

  • @Vector@lemmy.world
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    30•1 year ago

    A key innovation of the new study is that the researchers were also able to figure out what kinds of information the deep-learning model was using to make its antibiotic potency predictions. This knowledge could help researchers to design additional drugs that might work even better than the ones identified by the model.

    That is awesome. I wonder if the techniques that they have used to expose the machine learning “black box” process can be applied to other models - from my understanding of it, that would be pretty big news in and of itself.

    • R0cket_M00se
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      5•1 year ago

      Hope so, that’s the big leap forward with machine learning IMO.

      • @Legendsofanus@lemmy.world
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        2•1 year ago

        So what, we are learning what caused AI to come to a conclusion?

  • @Fades@lemmy.world
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    21•1 year ago

    With the defeat of the super bugs, I for one welcome the super super bugs.

    • prole
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      3•1 year ago

      Exterminate all rational thought. That’s the conclusion I’ve come to.

  • @Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    6•1 year ago

    Great. Now lock it away and require CDC approval for each dose. We may just get out of this alive.

    Just kidding, nobody gets out of life alive.

    • @Chakravanti@sh.itjust.works
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      2•1 year ago

      Decade tops.

  • @MaximilianKohler@lemmy.world
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    3•1 year ago

    I guess all the people solely cheering for this aren’t aware of the damage we’ve been doing to ourselves with antibiotics:

    While antibiotic resistance gets all the attention, the damage being done to our host-native microbiomes is arguably as big a threat as climate change, as the damage compounds over generations, and once it’s gone you can’t get it back. (Apr 2019).

    Resistance may already be a solved problem: https://humanmicrobiome.info/antibiotics/#fmt-to-counter-antibiotic-resistance

    • @SpaghettiYeti@lemmy.world
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      11•1 year ago

      Interesting. Who is the seemingly random person posting on a forum about human biomes? Do you have a peer reviewed paper on it?

      • @MaximilianKohler@lemmy.world
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        -4•1 year ago

        It says who they are in their signature. And a plethora of peer-reviewed papers are cited.

  • ripcord
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    2•1 year ago

    Great!

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