AI cracks superbug problem in two days that took scientists years
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.
I’m impressed, unless the solution was, spray it with Raid!
Did it do so independantly or was it biased by the fact that the info the team came up with over ten years would likely have been published and documented in research papers and journals. If it was out there in the academic/public sphere wouldn’t that info have found itself into the training/database that the AI would have accessed?