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I spent a second trying to understand why anyone would do this (gain of function research?), until I realized the title should have retained the BBC's hyphen.
by ARandomerDude 3y ago
I spent a second trying to understand why anyone would do this (gain of function research?), until I realized the title should have retained the BBC's hyphen.
> Superbug killing antibiotics with the help of AI
means "A superbug is killing antibiotics, with the help of AI."
> Superbug-killing antibiotics with the help of AI
means "Antibiotics are killing a superbug, with the help of AI."
- ljlolel 3y ago[flagged]
- hombre_fatal 3y ago[flagged]
- account-5 3y agoSame here. Exact same though until I read the article and realised it was the opposite of what I thought.
- 0xcafecafe 3y agoI had a similar brush with ambiguity sometime back when there was an article about a bill being tabled. The verb table has two opposite meanings per merriam webster: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/table#:~:text=tabled%3B%20tabling%20%CB%88t%C4%81%2Db(,to%20put%20on%20a%20table https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/table#:~:text=tab... a: to remove (something, such as a parliamentary motion) from consideration indefinitely b British : to place on the agenda
- carlmr 3y agoWhile I agree with your grammar rules parsing, the ambiguity is semantically resolved if you know that antibiotics can't be killed, while bugs can.