MIT researchers say they used AI to discover new potent antibiotics that treat drug-resistant diseases
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@helengreiner
Helen Greiner
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The best scientist and engineers use AI as a tool while PR-oriented AI researchers continue to waste time with spurious debates like trolley problem or the latest “would you pick a statistically better AI over a human doctor”. AI yields new antibiotic http://news.mit.edu/...
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@berci
@berci
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A #DeepLearning method is proven again to be able to find (and design) new drugs that can combat diseases we couldn't combat before. Once again, it shows the way for #AI in drug design. http://news.mit.edu/...
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@ladyaeva
@ladyaeva
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scientists used machine learning to screen a pharmaceutical database for potential novel antibiotics, narrowed 100m entries down to 23 in a few days, and found several very potent antibiotics in the results https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
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@spoltipierri
Pirri Spolti
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The opportunities with AI for life science have not yet been understood for many but will impact all. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
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@thebiomedfuture
Tatiana Kerentseva, Ph.D.
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Artificial intelligence yields new antibiotic. A deep-learning model identifies a powerful new drug that kills antibiotic-resistant bacteria. It also cleared infections in mouse models. The computer model kills bacteria differently from existing drugs. http://news.mit.edu/...
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@sophiebushwick
Sophie Bushwick
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Artificial intelligence helped researchers discover a powerful new antibiotic https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
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@xsteenbrugge
Xander Steenbrugge
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This is where AI shines: not necessarily doing this better than us (even though it sometimes can), but doing it differently! So radically different in fact, that bacteria never knew what hit em.. Such a massive tool for fighting antibiotic resistance 👌 https://www.theguardian.com…
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@kdnuggets
@kdnuggets
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#Halicin, a new powerful antibiotic that kills some of the most dangerous drug-resistant bacteria in the world has been discovered using #MachineLearning #AI @guardian https://www.theguardian.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
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@popeguilty
Pope Guilty
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Extremely hoping that this is actually something good and on its way to doing a lot of good and not overstated bullshit designed to attract investors. http://news.mit.edu/...
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@grady_booch
Grady Booch
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Machine learning makes it easier to discover new valleys and peaks in the landscape of a domain that have been otherwise neglected because of the limits of time, space, and tradition. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
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@josephflaherty
Joseph Flaherty
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In this era of tech cynicism, it's worth noting that this breakthrough that could save hundreds of millions of lives was made possible, in large part, by open source tools like TensorFlow, developed by Google, and PyTorch led by Facebook. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
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@stephenmcgann
Stephen McGann
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This is a beautiful thing. Just beautiful. And isn't it nice to see AI in a context other than dystopian? https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
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@omkar_raii
Dr.Omkar Rai
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The new antibiotics discovered by researchers at @MIT by leveraging #AI to treat drug-resistant diseases can bring in paradigm shift in the drug discovery process while reducing the cost of antibiotics and treat the untreatable diseases in a faster manner.https://www.ft.com/...