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I don't know why, but I have a faint hope that some day AI and Machine learning will help solve these problems. Problems like these, and selectively killing can

I don't know why, but I have a faint hope that some day AI and Machine learning will help solve these problems. Problems like these, and selectively killing cancer cells. Of course, just a hope.

balls187 10y ago
1 person out of 300,000,000 has died that's linked to drug resistant superbug. Hardly a problem. Of course AI could also just solve the problem by killing anyone who has superbugs, so that the spread of such things is eradicated.
- onion2k 10y ago
  Of course AI could also just solve the problem by killing anyone who has superbugs, so that the spread of such things is eradicated. That wouldn't work if the infectious stage of contamination comes before any obvious symptoms present themselves. Certainly in the case of colds and influenza the symptoms that make you look/feel unwell come days after you've been passing it to other people.
  - TeMPOraL 10y ago
    Relevant: https://xkcd.com/1612/ https://xkcd.com/1612/, especially alt-text: "The contagious period ends right around when you start to sound sick over the phone, which is probably evidence of cold viruses evolving to spread optimally in the workplace.".
- TomAnthony 10y ago
  The article mentions that this isn't the first such case. It is just a more recent example. Furthermore, there are multiple examples of bacteria that are resistant to families of antibiotics, which indicates the direction of the trend. If we don't consider it a problem now, when should we?
  - arviewer 10y ago
    > If we don't consider it a problem now, when should we? What we should, does not matter. When it starts to cost money, or when there is an opportunity to earn money, then things will change.
- joering2 10y ago
  I hope you will see this message before I get downvoted, but every time I hear such opinion, I wonder about person's character... So - would you say the same thing, if that one person happen to be your mother, or a son?
  - balls187 10y ago
    Keeping perspective means exactly what about my character?
- MaysonL 10y ago
  Read this. "The Potential Trajectory of Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae, an Emerging Threat to Health-Care Facilities, and the Impact of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Toolkit"[0] [0]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4772438/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4772438/

I don't know why, but I have a faint hope that some day AI and Machine learning will help solve these problems. Problems like these, and selectively killing cancer cells. Of course, just a hope.

balls187 10y ago

1 person out of 300,000,000 has died that's linked to drug resistant superbug. Hardly a problem. Of course AI could also just solve the problem by killing anyone who has superbugs, so that the spread of such things is eradicated.

onion2k 10y ago
Of course AI could also just solve the problem by killing anyone who has superbugs, so that the spread of such things is eradicated. That wouldn't work if the infectious stage of contamination comes before any obvious symptoms present themselves. Certainly in the case of colds and influenza the symptoms that make you look/feel unwell come days after you've been passing it to other people.
- TeMPOraL 10y ago
  Relevant: https://xkcd.com/1612/ https://xkcd.com/1612/, especially alt-text: "The contagious period ends right around when you start to sound sick over the phone, which is probably evidence of cold viruses evolving to spread optimally in the workplace.".
TomAnthony 10y ago
The article mentions that this isn't the first such case. It is just a more recent example. Furthermore, there are multiple examples of bacteria that are resistant to families of antibiotics, which indicates the direction of the trend. If we don't consider it a problem now, when should we?
- arviewer 10y ago
  > If we don't consider it a problem now, when should we? What we should, does not matter. When it starts to cost money, or when there is an opportunity to earn money, then things will change.
joering2 10y ago
I hope you will see this message before I get downvoted, but every time I hear such opinion, I wonder about person's character... So - would you say the same thing, if that one person happen to be your mother, or a son?
- balls187 10y ago
  Keeping perspective means exactly what about my character?
MaysonL 10y ago
Read this. "The Potential Trajectory of Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae, an Emerging Threat to Health-Care Facilities, and the Impact of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Toolkit"[0] [0]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4772438/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4772438/