Bob Novella

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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe · The Skeptics Guide #1063 - Nov 22 2025 podcast

So they loaded the gun perfectly for them to get these results. voice-verified

The AI learned many of the rules that real biological genomes follow, and this part is important because it wasn't just it shooting into the dark. voice-verified

They concluded that the success of this program proves that it had, you know, a quote-unquote, a real understanding of what the, you know, you can call them rules or whatever, but just how these systems work. voice-verified

And it needed that in order to have this many successes. voice-verified

So once they had these DNA sequences, they used other laboratories to actually build these structures, and they were assembled, and they were able to inject them into bacteria, and it worked. voice-verified

It was actually very successful. voice-verified

And the interesting thing here— voice-verified

So now that we have the DNA and now that they were able to build these phages, the implications are significant because we see what was able to be done with the LLM. voice-verified

We know that it can function and we know that it can spit out usable data. voice-verified

So now what are we looking at? voice-verified

you know, phage therapy could become a much more targeted thing in the future. voice-verified

Synthetic biology could explore, you know, designs that are way beyond what evolution has produced. voice-verified

But of course, there's like the Frankenstein risks here that we have to be very careful about. voice-verified

And there needs to be responsible oversight. voice-verified

And of course, whenever we say that we need oversight, it's the one thing that we seem not to get because, you know, we have this incredible, powerful technology that, again, we could do incredible things with. voice-verified

Here's a few things people need to keep in mind. voice-verified

This could be used in the future. voice-verified

Yeah, that's why I'm saying that they claimed it. voice-verified

And again, this is how science works, right? voice-verified

Right now, it's in super early phase. voice-verified

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