One of the great promises of artificial intelligence was that it would help to cure diseases that have thus far stumped humanity. It hasn’t gotten there yet, but it has now created a new, viable virus not found in nature—which is one of those technical achievements that is both impressive and unnerving.
Researchers at the Palo Alto, California-based Arc Institute believe they have accomplished a new first by using AI to manufacture new viral genomes by first teaching a model how to recognize the DNA structure of different viruses found in nature and then tasking it to create recipes for new, novel viruses.
Once the model—a genome language…
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