Another high for AI20 Feb 2025 11:55
"A scientific mystery that took 10 years to solve was cracked in two days by Google’s artificial intelligence.
The tech giant’s latest AI development is dubbed “co-scientist” and is designed to act as a colleague for researchers, with its own ideas, theories and analysis.
Scientists at Imperial College London had spent a decade solving a mystery in the field of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), which creates superbugs that are immune to antibiotics and are expected to kill millions of people a year by 2050.
Using traditional research methods, the team had theorised and then proved how different bacteria are able to accrue new DNA which can make them more dangerous, and its study is now in the process of being published by Cell, the peer-reviewed journal.
After the work was finished, the scientists at Imperial partnered with Google to help test out the AI co-scientist feature.
The researchers asked the co-scientist – which uses many of Google’s Gemini AI models to pit various existing data and novel theories against each other – for ideas on how bacteria become immune to antibiotics."
source: msn