AI Finally Being Used For Good

Let’s admit it. When we first heard of AI getting scary good, we all had at least a little bit of fear that AI would replace us and take over. Then, we comforted ourselves by thinking: “Oh no, AI is far from that level of advanced!”

Right. Well, about that…

Like. Very advanced. To the point where it can generate a video so realistic that it can fool most people over the age of 40, and people under the age of 20 have begun to fear for their future job prospects.

However, AI’s advancement has made us forget what AI was created for—to help humans continue to grow as a species. It wasn’t made to replace humans. It was made to act as a tool for humanity. After all, humans are horrible, self-serving, and greedy creatures. (No offense to the reader, of course.) Everything we do is for ourselves. In this case, it has backfired on us.

We can still turn the tide, though.

An AI program named AlphaFold has been used to study how proteins work and how they can lead to disease. A new team of researchers at Google DeepMind is trying to use the same system to figure out how DNA works. Enter AlphaGenome, another AI program designed after AlphaFold to solve the complexities of AI.

AlphaGenome has been trained on a lot of molecular data, which allows the program to make guesses about mutations, which is vital to understanding diseases such as cancer. While the general idea seems to be good, there have been allegations of scientists wasting their time.

To me, however, any way that AI can actually