AI-designed universal coronavirus vaccine passes first human trial
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Scientists have successfully tested an AI-designed universal coronavirus vaccine in humans for the first time, finding it to be safe and well tolerated. The vaccine generated immune responses against multiple coronaviruses, including SARS-CoV-2, SARS, and related bat viruses with pandemic potential. By targeting features shared across an entire virus family, it aims to provide protection even as viruses evolve.

The whole idea of putting something in your body that AI came up with is unnerving, but this microfluid jet stream method of injection is kind of blowing my mind.

  • PlasticExistence@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    So we lump a lot of stuff under the term AI, but prior to ChatGPT, we would have been talking about “machine learning” coming up with this solution.

    I really hate the way the AI companies have gone about their business, but machine learning certainly has its proven uses.

    I think things like this - that humans probably could have invented on our own, just more slowly without the machine - are just about the perfect application of the technology. It’s being used as a tool that helps humans, not a machine that replaces us.