{"id":96333,"date":"2019-09-16T19:42:16","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T02:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/meet-five-synthetic-biology-companies-using-ai-to-engineer-biology"},"modified":"2019-09-16T19:42:16","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T02:42:16","slug":"meet-five-synthetic-biology-companies-using-ai-to-engineer-biology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/meet-five-synthetic-biology-companies-using-ai-to-engineer-biology","title":{"rendered":"Meet Five Synthetic Biology Companies Using AI To Engineer Biology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/meet-five-synthetic-biology-companies-using-ai-to-engineer-biology2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TVs and radios blare that \u201cartificial intelligence is coming,\u201d and it will take your job and beat you at chess.<\/p>\n<p>But AI is already here, and it can beat you \u2014 and the world\u2019s best \u2014 at chess. In 2012, it was also used by Google to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2012\/06\/google-x-neural-network\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink: https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2012\/06\/google-x-neural-network\/\">identify cats in YouTube videos.<\/a> Today, it\u2019s the reason Teslas have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/bradtempleton\/2019\/09\/06\/ntsb-report-on-tesla-autopilot-accident-shows-whats-inside-and-its-not-pretty-for-fsd\/#493c114f4dc5\" target=\"_self\" class=\"\" data-ga-track=\"InternalLink: https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/bradtempleton\/2019\/09\/06\/ntsb-report-on-tesla-autopilot-accident-shows-whats-inside-and-its-not-pretty-for-fsd\/#493c114f4dc5\">Autopilot<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2019\/09\/06\/spotify-netflix-tony-jebara\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink: https:\/\/fortune.com\/2019\/09\/06\/spotify-netflix-tony-jebara\/\">Netflix and Spotify seem to \u201cread your mind.\u201d<\/a> Now, AI is changing the field of synthetic biology and how we engineer biology. It\u2019s helping engineers design new ways to design genetic circuits \u2014 and it could leave a remarkable impact on the future of humanity through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/johncumbers\/2019\/09\/14\/meet-the-8-tech-titans-investing-in-synthetic-biology\/#52c4279fa64b\" target=\"_self\" class=\"\" data-ga-track=\"InternalLink: https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/johncumbers\/2019\/09\/14\/meet-the-8-tech-titans-investing-in-synthetic-biology\/#52c4279fa64b\">huge investment it has been receiving ($12.3b in the last 10 years) and the markets it is disrupting.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TVs and radios blare that \u201cartificial intelligence is coming,\u201d and it will take your job and beat you at chess. But AI is already here, and it can beat you \u2014 and the world\u2019s best \u2014 at chess. In 2012, it was also used by Google to identify cats in YouTube videos. Today, it\u2019s the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,3,412,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biological","category-genetics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96333","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}