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AI-discovered drugs will be for sale soon - Vox

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It takes forever to get drugs on the market. AI could help speed up the process.

In the 1968 novel and film 2001: A Space Odyssey, the artificial intelligence system Hal (short for HAL 9000) kills its spaceship’s astronauts. In reality, the nickname Hal refers to a different kind of killer: not of humans, but of bacteria. In February 2020 — more than five decades after the science fiction film introduced the world to perhaps the first great AI villain — a team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology used artificial intelligence to discover an antibiotic capable of killing E. coli, which hospitalizes thousands of people a year, as well as an…

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