Generative AI arrives in the gene-editing world of CRISPR

Generative artificial intelligence technologies can write poetry and computer programs or create images of teddy bears and videos of cartoon characters that look like something from a Hollywood movie. Now, new AI technology is generating blueprints for microscopic biological mechanisms that can edit your DNA, pointing to a future when scientists can battle illness and diseases with even greater precision and speed than they can today. Described in a research paper published Monday by a Berkeley, California, startup called Profluent, the technology is based on the same methods that drive ChatGPT, the online chatbot that launched the AI boom after its release in 2022.