New superbug-killing antibiotic discovered using AI
&gt;They took thousands of drugs where the precise chemical structure was known, and manually tested them on Acinetobacter baumanni... This information was fed into the AI... The AI was then unleashed on a list of 6,680 compounds... took the AI an hour and a half to produce a shortlist... The researchers tested 240 in the laboratory, and found nine potential antibiotics.<p>They started with manually testing thousands of drugs, in order to narrow another similarly sized list by one order of magnitude, which was then tested manually. Did they actually save time compared to what it would have taken to test the 6,680 list manually? I guess this needs to go up by one order of magnitude to be really worthwhile?