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Title: Machine Generated Chemical Weapons
Post by: Rushy on September 02, 2022, 02:48:47 PM

While everyone is busy arguing over the definition of art and about AIs that busy themselves printing out pretty pictures, this AI was busy finding ever more creative ways to murder you.

https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/drug-discovery-ai-that-developed-new-nerve-agents-raises-difficult-questions/4015462.article

The irony that the system was intended to find helpful new medicines given a series of constraints is interesting. It categorized the new finds based on how toxic they are, the problem being that some of its new finds may be worse for you than a helping of VX nerve gas.

Title: Re: Machine Generated Chemical Weapons
Post by: Rama Set on September 03, 2022, 02:33:09 PM

Classic. Humans push the boundaries of science and engineering expecting nothing to go wrong and are shocked when it does.