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Speaking of AI, you introduce the concept of artificial biological intelligence (ABI)
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New tools aim to turn DNA into something engineers can design.
Key facts
- That’s the premise of Adrian Woolfson ’s new book, On the Future of Species: Authoring Life by Artificial Biological Intelligence, which published on 28 April from MIT Press
- Woolfson: The best example might be the synthetic yeast genome project known as Sc2.0, which was pioneered by Jef Boeke in New York City
- But instead of manipulating the 26 letters of the English alphabet, they manipulate the four letters of the language of DNA
- Eliza Strickland is a senior editor at IEEE Spectrum covering AI and biomedical engineering
Summary
Eliza Strickland is a senior editor at IEEE Spectrum covering AI and biomedical engineering. What if biology stopped being something they study and started becoming something they design? Biology has this requirement to be robust and to be able to deal with damage in an efficient way. Biological machines are this complex entanglement of history and current design, and they have design components that an engineer would find risible. But when you start to mess around with these genomes and reconfigure them, inevitably you introduce bugs into the code. AI is going to have a huge impact on their ability to turn DNA into a predictive engineering material. Speaking of AI, you introduce the concept of artificial biological intelligence (ABI).