These aren’t just any viruses, mind you: Omnii-1, the AI model publicly unveiled by Radical Numerics this week, was used to design viable bacteriophages, a type of virus that specifically infects bacteria.
“Receives” clues you into that it was part of medical treatment, but I can see you how would read it as clickbait, but I honesly don’t think it was intended to be so.
Great, but what about mutation? How stable are bacteriophages? Oh, yeah, it doesn’t matter because the transcribing proteins (in the host cell) cause errors that cause the mutations.
True, but it is news that should give us all pause. Imagine what they could do with AI+CRISPR gene editing, which is also a virus. Probably not something good.
Clickbait title
If it’s making fucking phages I’m all for it.
“Receives” clues you into that it was part of medical treatment, but I can see you how would read it as clickbait, but I honesly don’t think it was intended to be so.
Considering the epigraph being
It does definitely seem intended
Great, but what about mutation? How stable are bacteriophages? Oh, yeah, it doesn’t matter because the transcribing proteins (in the host cell) cause errors that cause the mutations.
Wee… Resident Evil speed run.
I was already about to say “go watch some more movies” and then your comment finished with a movie reference :D
I’m not sure if I prefer AI -> T-Virus or AI -> SkyNet.
Either way, this reality is burned…
True, but it is news that should give us all pause. Imagine what they could do with AI+CRISPR gene editing, which is also a virus. Probably not something good.
Oh, I’m sure they’re smirking at the military applications of such horrors.