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sanqueue@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

Using AI, researchers identify a new class of antibiotic candidates that can kill a drug-resistant bacterium

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Using AI, researchers identify a new class of antibiotic candidates that can kill a drug-resistant bacterium

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sanqueue@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago
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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.
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  • Tremble@sh.itjust.works
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    Great; so this is all public domain knowledge since it was created with AI according to current law, right?

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      Yeah, so the actual law is that if you didn’t do any work and just gave ChatGPT or Midjourney a prompt and it shat out a picture and then brag to the copyright office in your application that you didn’t do diddly squat, the work effectively had no human authors. If, instead, you build a new machine learning model, tune it for your specific problem, analyze the results, and furthermore, break new ground understanding how it solved your problem, and then you write the paper, in fact, you have tons of ownership over the work.

      The fact people can’t tell the difference between the two and are actually upvoting you kind of says a lot about how little most people understand this stuff.

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        I’m just downvoting you for being a smarmy prick. Not because your comment is inaccurate.

        • guitarsarereal@sh.itjust.works
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          Would you also agree it’s rude to imply that this group of researchers, who actually advanced the state of the art in machine learning, are just a bunch of ChatGPT jockeys who don’t deserve credit for their work?

        • barsoap@lemm.ee
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          I hope you’re at least consistent and downvoted yourself, then.

        • dwalin@lemmy.world
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          Same :/

    • Daxtron2@startrek.website
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      Personally I think all medicine should be public domain

      • deft@ttrpg.network
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        Everything should.

        Medicine. Internet. Waste disposal.

        • datendefekt@lemmy.ml
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          All utilities, phone, electricity, sewage, road and rail.

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

        • Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          So you want to reduce innovation and cause creators to not get properly paid for their work? Great idea

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            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.

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              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.

          • deft@ttrpg.network
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            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.

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

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                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.

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              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.

              • deft@ttrpg.network
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                why do you think that??

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      Depends, what was the training set / knowledge base?

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      deleted by creator

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

    • prole@sh.itjust.works
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      Exterminate all rational thought. That’s the conclusion I’ve come to.

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    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

    • SpaghettiYeti@lemmy.world
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      Interesting. Who is the seemingly random person posting on a forum about human biomes? Do you have a peer reviewed paper on it?

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

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      Would you prefer to live in a world without antibiotics?

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        Only a Sith deals in absolutes. https://humanmicrobiome.info/antibiotics/#antibiotics-overuse

        IMO, the lack of ability for nuance is a sign of low intelligence.

        Relevant: Antibiotics that kill gut bacteria also stop growth of new brain cells: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/05/160519130105.htm

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          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.

          • MaximilianKohler@lemmy.world
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            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.

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    Great!

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    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.

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