This is the most incredible thing I have heard this year (yet).

[gadi@infosec.exchange]

This is the most incredible thing I have heard this year (yet). A guy sequenced his dog's cancer DNA against her DNA, and used ChatGPT and AlphaFold to develop an individualized mRNA vaccine to save her life. The future is here. It took longer to get approval for the treatment than to develop it.

Story:
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/technology/tech-boss-uses-ai-and-chatgpt-to-create-cancer-vaccine-for-his-dying-dog/news-story/292a21bcbe93efa17810bfcfcdfadbf7

[noplasticshower@infosec.exchange]

@gadi wild

[dalias@hachyderm.io]

@gadi Frustrating that the article reads like a ad when its role was "brainstorming" standing in as basically a worse version of a search engine, when there is all kinds of real science and biotech responsible for the actual feat.

[dalias@hachyderm.io]

@gadi It's like if something like this were reported on 20 years ago, and instead of crediting the papers and research notes published on the internet that gave the person the ideas, the reporter credited "Google" for all of that.

[srdas@mastodon.online]

@noplasticshower @gadi Wow!

[gadi@infosec.exchange]

@dalias I prefer to see it as a positive, about power users and how embedded the technology is becoming