Biotechnology

A possible plague case in Russia exposes a frightening weakness in our high-tech AI world

A possible plague case in Russia exposes a frightening weakness in our high-tech AI world

A mysterious death at a Russian anti-plague institute is putting modern disease surveillance in the spotlight. AI, genomic sequencing, wastewater monitoring, and other technologies are incredibly powerful, but they cannot compensate for missing information.

OpenAI just exposed how bad AI still is at real science

OpenAI just exposed how bad AI still is at real science

OpenAI’s new LifeSciBench benchmark was supposed to measure how useful AI can be in scientific research. Instead, it also highlights just how far today’s most advanced models still have to go before they can be trusted with real science.