AI steps up in fight against resistance

It’s not all doom and gloom on the advanced technology front.

Regular followers of this digital rectangle could be forgiven for thinking your Back Page scrawler is not the world’s biggest fan of artificial intelligence.

Fair enough too, because we have in the past readily availed ourselves of the opportunity to highlight some of the over-hyped technology’s more transparent shortcomings.

So today we are going to break the mould somewhat and focus on something that shows AI might also be a force for good – something positive for humanity, as opposed to an existential threat.

Because, dear reader, it is entirely possible for AI to be both those things simultaneously.

Take the issue of antimicrobial resistance, for instance. While not a peril akin to a nuclear holocaust perhaps, those pesky bacterial pathogens do hold the potential to wreak significant health havoc if things get too far out of hand.