{"id":207074,"date":"2025-02-23T18:11:17","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T00:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/scientists-spent-10-years-on-a-superbug-mystery-googles-ai-solved-it-in-48-hours"},"modified":"2025-02-23T18:11:17","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T00:11:17","slug":"scientists-spent-10-years-on-a-superbug-mystery-googles-ai-solved-it-in-48-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/scientists-spent-10-years-on-a-superbug-mystery-googles-ai-solved-it-in-48-hours","title":{"rendered":"Scientists spent 10 years on a superbug mystery \u2014 Google\u2019s AI solved it in 48 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-spent-10-years-on-a-superbug-mystery-googles-ai-solved-it-in-48-hours.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Professor Jos\u00e9 R Penad\u00e9s told the BBC that Google\u2019s tool reached the same hypothesis that his team had \u2013 that superbugs can create a tail that allows them to move between species. In simpler terms, one can think of it as a master key that enables the bug to move from home to home.<\/p>\n<p>Penad\u00e9s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/clyz6e9edy3o\">asserts<\/a> that his team\u2019s research was unique and that the results hadn\u2019t been published anywhere online for the AI to find. What\u2019s more, he even reached out to Google to ask if they had access to his computer. Google assured him they did not.<\/p>\n<p>Arguably even more remarkable is the fact that the AI provided four additional hypotheses. According to Penad\u00e9s, all of them made sense. The team had not even considered one of the solutions, and is now investigating it further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Jos\u00e9 R Penad\u00e9s told the BBC that Google\u2019s tool reached the same hypothesis that his team had \u2013 that superbugs can create a tail that allows them to move between species. In simpler terms, one can think of it as a master key that enables the bug to move from home to home. Penad\u00e9s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}