What connects ChatGPT and antibiotics?
History has a curious answer: 1944. In that year, scientists proposed the first artificial neural network, a technology that later led to the birth of deep-learning and artificially intelligent systems like ChatGPT. The same year, biologists discovered streptomycin, the world’s first aminoglycoside antibiotic. It would soon revolutionise the treatment of life-threatening diseases like tuberculosis.
Today, we have a deeper connection between deep-learning and antibiotics. In a December 2023 paper in Nature, scientists have reported discovering a new class of antibiotics using a form of deep-learning that has been gaining more attention.
