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.
  • Tremble@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    639·
    2 years ago

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

        • datendefekt@lemmy.mlEnglish
          7·
          2 years ago

          All utilities, phone, electricity, sewage, road and rail.

          But actually looking at these, pretty much all protocols and standards are already open.

          • TheMurphyEnglish
            141·
            2 years ago

            No, because paying for your medicin and Internet is something your government/country SHOULD do.

            Healthy people with access to the surrounding world through the Internet is a giant net positive for a country.

            But ofc we have to think of the poor billionaires first.

            • Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
              13·
              2 years ago

              Healthy people with access to the surrounding world through the Internet is a giant net positive for a country

              Certainly, if that was all the public domain was, it’d be great! But it’s much worse than that. It allows people to freely take and profit off the art of others without paying dividends. It allows larger companies to steal and copy designs of small, new companies and under cut them even more readily and easily than they already do.

              There’s plenty of downsides that you’re not considering.

              • TheMurphyEnglish
                1·
                2 years ago

                I don’t know if you commented on the wrong thing, but I argued that medicin and Internet (and similar) should be paid by the country (taxes).

          • deft@ttrpg.networkEnglish
            92·
            2 years ago

            lol “innovation” what is this 1925?

            how innovative are the cars being produced because they look the same.

            half those medicines are publicly funded

            the Internet is publicly funded.

            this belief of private sector innovation is not as true as they sell it to be.

            • Tremble@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              71·
              2 years ago

              This. Public institutions do a way better job and are more efficient at most things compared to private companies. It’s just a fact.

              • deft@ttrpg.networkEnglish
                2·
                2 years ago

                Private just makes more money and also you can do ridiculous shit like blow up your own rocket, destroying a landing pad in the process and ignore environmental and labor laws.

            • Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
              12·
              2 years ago

              So you’re just going to ignore the even worse creative theft that would happen under such laws towards artistic talents.

              There’d be much less in the way of tv shows or animations.

    • roofuskitEnglish
      81·
      2 years ago

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

  • VectorEnglish
    36·
    2 years 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_M00seEnglish
      7·
      2 years ago

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

      • LegendsofanusEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

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

  • FadesEnglish
    24·
    2 years ago

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

  • MaggotyEnglish
    91·
    2 years 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.

  • MaximilianKohlerEnglish
    118·
    2 years 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

      • MaximilianKohlerEnglish
        26·
        2 years ago

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

      • PsythikEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        No but people should really stop abusing OTC antibiotics like Neosporin. You don’t have to put it on every wound.

        • lolcatnip@reddthat.comEnglish
          4·
          2 years ago

          Yes but there’s no reason to snark about a new class of antibiotics unless you think they shouldn’t be used at all.

        • InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          21·
          2 years ago

          I tend to have wounds scab into the dressing which sucks because it rips out when you change it. Which is why I got vitamin E gel for those times I don’t need an antibiotics. The capsules are also more convenient to carry around than a tube and take virtually no space in a bag/kit.

        • lolcatnip@reddthat.comEnglish
          101·
          2 years ago

          There was no nuance in what you posted. Being a dick about it is a sign of low emotional intelligence. As is responding with a Star Wars quote that implies anyone saying it is a Sith.

          • MaximilianKohlerEnglish
            14·
            2 years ago

            There was no nuance in what you posted

            This is a flat out lie. The fact that people are upvoting it is very depressing. It’s disappointing to see that people on lemmy aren’t any smarter than people on reddit.