tatleoat t1_j5jgcih wrote on January 23, 2023 at 1:09 PM

Reply to comment by e987654 in University of Toronto researchers used AI to discover a potential new cancer drug — in less than a month by BigShoots

It made the moderna covid vaccine in 3 days

civilrunner t1_j5k6h9s wrote on January 23, 2023 at 4:22 PM

I'm not sure that was AI. They sequenced the genome of COVID rather quickly, which is a rather small genome. They then picked a protein target and grabbed the RNA for it and then threw that into their mRNA vaccine system that was already developed. I don't think they used much AI in that process.

tatleoat t1_j5k7jy2 wrote on January 23, 2023 at 4:29 PM

It did the protein folding

duffmanhb t1_j5ksrpu wrote on January 23, 2023 at 6:41 PM

It’s wild how a decade ago protein folding was an insane problem to solve. People were waiting together cloud super computers just to solve a single protein. Then 2 years ago Google releases a program that can do any and all folding almost instantly.