Bird flu is still out there, and it seems likely that by the time it figures out humans, the US public health apparatus will be basically destroyed.
Ever lived through a plague in the middle ages? Would you like to?
Comment on Generative design of novel bacteriophages with genome language models
plyth@feddit.org 4 days ago
This is fascinating and frightening. It’s only a matter of time until there is the next lockdown.
Bird flu is still out there, and it seems likely that by the time it figures out humans, the US public health apparatus will be basically destroyed.
Ever lived through a plague in the middle ages? Would you like to?
crt0o@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
Well the models were trained on bacteriophages, so it’s pretty much impossible that the viruses could be human pathogens, still scary af though lol