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by JangoSteve 781 days ago
Do you mean for AI to do the entire job of researching, creating, testing, manufacturing, and distributing a cure, or just for AI to be involved? And do you mean completely eradicating a disease, or just producing a cure for it? And do you mean an outright cure, or also a treatment or vaccine? If the latter in all cases, here's an example:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/08/26/1058743/i-was-th...

If you mean the former in any case, it'll probably be a while, if ever in our lifetimes.