Generative artificial intelligence technologies can write poetry and computer programs or create images of teddy bears and videos of cartoon characters that look like something from a Hollywood movie.
Now, new AI technology is generating blueprints for microscopic biological mechanisms that can edit your DNA, pointing to a future when scientists can battle illness and diseases with even greater precision and speed than they can today.
Described in a research paper published Monday by a Berkeley, California, startup called Profluent, the technology is based on the same methods that drive ChatGPT, the online chatbot that launched the AI boom after its release in 2022.
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