Finding the cure for all diseases is one of humanity’s utopian dreams. Mark Zuckerberg’s wife Priscilla Chanhas a plan to achieve it and relates to the use of artificial intelligence.
Through an initiative called CZI, in which Mark Zuckerberg also participatesone of the largest non-profit computer systems related to biological sciences in the world is being built, review Infobae.
The idea of the project is to generate an immense high-performance computing cloud, which is capable of comprising around a thousand graphics processing cards. Then, with this data in its systems, artificial intelligence would be able to apply language models (LLM) to biomedicine.
Once one of these systems is running, they plan to put the information at the disposal of doctors and scientists so they can begin analyzing healthy and diseased cells.
“Bringing the power of generative AI to biology at scale will allow researchers to incorporate these technological advances into their work, accelerating efforts to cure, prevent or control all diseases,” Priscilla said, according to the site mentioned.
“Artificial intelligence models could predict how an immune cell responds to an infection, what happens at the cellular level when a child is born with a rare disease, or even how a patient’s body will respond to a new drug. We hope that this collaborative effort will generate new knowledge about the fundamental characteristics of our cells,” added the medical graduate, from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).
The plan is that by the end of this century we will have all the technological tools capable of curing any disease.
“AI is creating new opportunities in biomedicine, and building a high-performance computing cloud dedicated to life sciences research will accelerate progress on important scientific questions about how our cells work,” said Mark Zuckerberg.