AI just found a new type of antibiotics. It may save your life one day.

In the time it takes you to read this article, one person in the US will die from an infection that antibiotics can no longer treat effectively. And over the course of this year, 700,000 people around the world will die from drug-resistant infections. That annual death toll could rise to 10 million by 2050, a major UN report recently warned, if we don't make a radical change. For the first time, AI researchers have figured out how to identify brand-new types of antibiotics by training a neural network to predict which molecules will have bacteria-killing properties. They've just published their findings in the journal Cell.