A.I. Just Designed An Enzyme That Eats Plastic

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@me0101001000 Год назад

I've recently started getting into computational chemistry, and I have to say, it is some of the wildest stuff I've studied recently. Seeing how machine learning is applied into pure chemistry is one thing. But I really want to see how ai and machine learning can be applied to chemical engineering, especially reaction engineering. Finding the optimal reaction conditions to maximize output and yield, minimize costs and operation time, it's not an easy task. I'm really looking forward to where this goes, especially in catalysis.

@N0N0111 Год назад

The RU-vid channel "Two Minute Papers" shows how fast AI training is going for visual computing. This whole AI eco-system is evolving lightning fast, and for sure will speed up other science platforms!

@shripperquats5872 Год назад

@@N0N0111 pretty soon AIs will be designing fully functioning, hyperfit, hyperintelligent and fully controllable creatures that will replace humans in many laborious, dangerous, and most vital tasks that they perform in their day to day... uh oh..

@me0101001000 Год назад

@@N0N0111 I'm a big fan of 2 minute papers! They are great at breaking down complex phenomena for non-experts! And I'm seeing it firsthand in physics and chemistry, because that's my line of work. It'll be cool to see AI's work in other fields as well, definitely! A lot of people seem to worry that AI will replace humans, but I think that a combination of human and AI work will be able to achieve more than that which one of the two could do alone.

@BrownCreature Год назад

Have you come across Lee Cronin and the Chemputer? He has an interview with Lex Fridman!

@me0101001000 Год назад

@@BrownCreature I have not. I'll have to check it out!

@wanderingazn Год назад

So many of the comments missed a few key points- (1) the AI optimized the enzyme, not the bacteria, so no replication(gray/grey-goo) issue. (2) The enzyme still requires temperatures outside of ambient temperatures to break down the PET within a week, so it’s not going to destroy our infrastructure if it gets out. (3) Yes, CO2 is a byproduct, but far less is emitted by this breakdown than burning the plastic.

@powertothesheeple5422 Год назад

Freon was the safest gas you could use for A/C systems when it was invented. Doctors used to tell pregnant women to smoke because it was good for the baby. Mercury, Asbestos, Roundup.... Any of these ring a bell? It's not a bad thing to have a bit of healthy skepticism, especially if you have been around long enough to remember the other many lies about great inventions of the past. Least we not forget about what happened the last time something escaped from a lab since we are literally still dealing with it.

@isaacandrewdixon Год назад

Thanks for this summary! Clears up alot

@lelsewherelelsewhere9435 Год назад

How do we manufacture the enzyme if not via engineered bacteria...?

@theondono Год назад

Just going to point out that point 3 is chemically impossible. The amount of CO2 emitted is exactly the same, it’s a matter of how much time does it take to reach the atmosphere.

@wanderingazn Год назад

@@theondono Am I wrong in my understanding that the enzymatic breakdown of the polymer results in individual monomers and CO2? There’s still plenty of carbon left in the monomers that could be converted into CO2 if the plastic was completely burned…

@josephdouglas5242 Год назад

50 C doesn't seem that hot. Lots (though not most) of places could easily get that temperature without added energy for several months a year just by building a structure meant to magnify the ambient heat. Heck, my car gets to 50 C if I leave the windows up.

@iCarus_A Год назад

It's still a temperature much much lower than ambient, except for the hottest months in some of the hottest regions on Earth.

@OatmealTheCrazy Год назад

@@iCarus_A I think you mean higher

@iCarus_A Год назад

@@OatmealTheCrazy yes

@JunSian1001 Год назад

I thought the same. 50 degC is a very reasonable operating temperature. In composting, the pile is sometimes heated to 50 degC to make sure the thermophilic bacteria degrade the food waste faster. Plastics are currently recycled by melting then cracking them into monomers at temperatures much higher than 100 degC.

@gussampson5029 Год назад

All you need to do is have the processing center in a greenhouse in Arizona. Guaranteed 50°C/112°F temperatures for at least 9 months out of the year. And it wouldn't need too much help even in winter.

@omer7895 Год назад

Thank you for confirming to me that I belong in no other major besides computer science. The notion of “hacking nature” really speaks to me. Nature is limited by thermodynamics and physics, but programming lets us tinker with its properties in a way that’s constrained only by our creativity. Through that, I believe is how we’re going to develop powerful solutions to the worlds biggest problems

@abdudelil352 Год назад

Science has come so far. It's hard to choose which is more amazing, the fact that we can decompose plastic or an A.I designed the enzyme.

@philindeblanc Год назад

How far has "science" come? How is your life improved? How has it made you more complete? And what do you even think science is?

@Gigachad-mc5qz Год назад

I love it. The only thing better is holding those companies responsibke for what they did

@sycofya1677 Год назад

Both

@DrAdityaReddy Год назад

@@philindeblanc how far has science come? Look around you man

@abdudelil352 Год назад

@@philindeblanc for starter, youre commenting today on this video because of science.. What products of science are available to you and how you use them depends on you.

@alanzhao6241 Год назад

It would be interesting to hear about the potential health issues micro plastic is causing

@luckydepressedguy8981 Год назад

well,I got a goat farm . one of them eat plastic and it died,well its our fault that we didn't clear the place thoroughly. Soo micro plastic = long term = dead?

@samsonsoturian6013 Год назад

Go to China

@emilen2 Год назад

@@luckydepressedguy8981 Your goat died of obstruction in stomach. Not microplastic.

@abrahamalviarez5870 Год назад

And air pollution!!

@c_lakindick Год назад

Not interesting, terrifying

@the_faba 11 месяцев назад

so nice of you to have the sources in the description! nice video ty

@jamesdaley6387 Год назад

I love your video!!!! I'm entertained and educated at the same time. The production value is always top-notch.

@DavidtheDoom Год назад

Combining this enzyme with solar heating such as the steam-heating tubes from Absolicon could be a gamechanger.

@Napierius777 Год назад

Man. Can never get enough of these videos. It's one of the small corners of the internet and RU-vid that really makes you excited to learn and above all inspires hope for the future when so much of the other information we can't escape paints a dim picture. Cheers Dagogo!

@bigdap100 Год назад

Klaus Schwab, Biden, and Fauci can’t wait to get their hands on this.

@marioncheek Год назад

Men? Don’t forget an odd woman or two (such as me) likes as well 😊

@hotstuff6934 Год назад

@@bigdap100 yes while they ignoring the fact fungi eats plastic

@flomccanuck8095 Год назад

So agree! Years ago I watched AI in it's infancy defeat the worlds top chess players Thought wow, imagine what it could do if applied to finding complicated solutions for mankind. While it's valid & wise to be very cautious of A1 it's an incredible tool we'd be foolish to not use.

@gregruland1934 Год назад

Fascinating - well-written and presented - ty

@scottread Год назад

Dagogo has the perfect voice for narration. So calming.

@DeltaNovum Год назад

This is fantastic news! Thank you for sharing it with us!

@notbfg9000 Год назад

Good news? What are you smoking? *We have infrastructure made with plastic. If this thing gets out of control and starts eating fuse boxes and water pipes and whatnot, what then??!*

@DeltaNovum Год назад

This is like a bright light in a darkening world.

@me0101001000 Год назад

Well I agree this is fantastic news, I do not believe the world is darkening. It just so happens that outrage and shock value sell best, and that's why we have become hyper aware of the darkness in the world. But I think there is far more light. So much new knowledge is created every day, people's lives are improving gradually, and we have become aware of the smallest and justices are on the world. The brightest light can help us become aware of even the smallest dark corners. Keep your head up! We'll be just fine!

@DeltaNovum Год назад

I see myself mostly as a realist and I don't really agree with your statement. Yeah sure there are many cool things being worked on and there's awesome progress being made, but most people in this world are seeing their lives declining in quality. If we don't look at the big picture and start making some adjustments to the way of ĺife, our consumption, our politics and greed we will only see things such as failed crops, famine, water shortage, civil unrest, climate refugees and pandemics more often. I feel very grateful and privileged to live where I live. I have clean and warm water, food in abundance, great mental and health care and a solid support system. These things are a high privilege and not common for the largest portion of humans on this earth.

@VeganSemihCyprus33 Год назад

👀👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 🔥

@NeoFighterX Год назад

I recycle obsessively, stripping labels and film for years. But since the initial discovery a few years ago, I realised that the plastics problem was on the verge of a breakthrough. thanks for covering!!

@philindeblanc Год назад

you can convert plastic to fuel. Its not complex

@excitedbox5705 Год назад

Sadly, corporations pollute so much that even if 100% of individuals were carbon neutral the climate would still be screwed. 7 industries produce almost 90% of Co2. We really need to focus on nuclear power so that we can stop releasing Co2 on massive scale. If we switch to nuclear power we would remove almost 50% of Co2 since then metal refining, shipping, and coal burning would stop polluting.

@monkeykidd420 Год назад

Recycling is a lie

@NeoFighterX Год назад

@@monkeykidd420 I hope that sentiment doesn't stop you from trying

@VeganSemihCyprus33 Год назад

👀👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 🔥

@garycard1826 Год назад

Great news. Thank you for your quite complete review!

@josephulbrich7523 Год назад

This is pretty cool, definitely seems useful too. I find these types of videos super interesting because they are helping to solve some of the the earth's/man's greatest problems.

@joshuamubiru7248 Год назад

This is huge news! And congratulations on the Award Nomination 🎉 You deserve it... Big thanks for your work

@7six3 Год назад

Be great to see this being done successfully on a large scale. Great video Dagogo - feel better mate 👍

@Spacecrust Год назад

The music in your videos elevats through the ceiling and beyond. Trancemazing

@VeritasOmniaVincit176 Год назад

I could be wrong, but this enzyme technology might also lead to a decentralized recycling process as it doesn’t require the infrastructure of a full recycling plant. As it is today, transporting trash to distant facilities actually causes more pollution than the recycling avoids.

@Junior-nt5nr Год назад

Was anyone under the impression that recycling magically caused less air pollution? The supposed purpose of recycling is to reduce the amount of plastic in circulation. I have never met anyone that thought it would somehow decrease emissions.

@VeritasOmniaVincit176 Год назад

@@Junior-nt5nr even if air pollution isn’t the point, the process wouldn’t be cost effective if more fuel is spent to transport trash than the value of the recycled material after production costs are factored in.

@Junior-nt5nr Год назад

@@VeritasOmniaVincit176 I never said it was cost effective either. What are you even arguing?

@machinedramon3532 Год назад

@@Junior-nt5nr That's the point. Currently, recycling is neither cost effective, nor energy efficient. Using an enzyme like this could make the process more cost effective and more energy efficient, and therefore more feasible.

@corujariousa Год назад

Great discovery. Thanks for the video! I wonder if product residues present in the recycled material (soap, oils, pesticides, etc) would have some impact to the enzyme-based recycling process.

@TheJhoody1 Год назад

Hi Dagogo Congratulations on the award Well done and well deserved!! I have always been impressed with your research and the content of each of the varied subjects that you provide on your ColdFusion channel. Thank you for providing so much interesting information for us curious humans.

@xXEverymanXx Год назад

That's definitely great progress! But the problem with the plastics in our bodies is that it comes from food and beverages mainly, so we have to do something about or way of consumption such as changing packaging and shopping itself.

@getabhirup Год назад

Again. Kudos for your research. And get well soon.

@Danboo21531 Год назад

“We’re observing nature, then hacking it to do our bidding” That’s exactly what engineering is, right?

@BigWheel. Год назад

Depends. Some engineering is just a jack off who's paid too much deciding the inside of an intake manifold is the perfect place to put a starter.

@kevinfernandez9999 Год назад

That's what 70% of scientific research is all about

@Gigaamped Год назад

But he’s talking about hacking nature at the cellular level which I think is a tad bit more relevant to the statement than observing nature to make transistors to do amazing things for example

@iyhashoshi9907 Год назад

what's your question inbox me right away✅

@Jonathanizer Год назад

Not just engineering. Natural science, the name gives the game away.

@alejandrogorgal Год назад

Congrats on your award! Loved getting some good news for once, one week is an impressive time to solve what I thought was an unsolvable problem. Obviously it needs further development, but I do hope they actually manage to implement this someday. Plus being able to recover the material for recycling is a great bonus.

@naraendrareddy273 Год назад

When the time's right, 1 hr is enough for a breakthrough

@Detroitblue Год назад

All the problems have solutions. It just a matter of what technology the controllers choose to allow in this world. They can cure all disease, and unleash free energy technology if they so choose.

@VitoDRF Год назад

It would also be interesting to see a similar approach used to convert certain plastics to hydrocarbon chains that could then be used as diesel-type fuel.

@steveyoung3245 Год назад

I am sure the A.I will build one soon,if not something better

@keamu8580 Год назад

It means all the plastic waste in the world becomes a valuable and more easily-recycled material feedstock from which we can begin many organic chemistry syntheses. It's not going to be as good and consistent as barrels of crude oil, but you'll be able to get a lot of lighter hydrocarbons out of it. Problem is if we do this using an engineered organism, great, until the organism mutates and gets into the wild where we have lots of important things made out of plastic.

@ReedoTV Год назад

@@keamu8580 It's an enzyme, not an organism

@keamu8580 Год назад

@@ReedoTV I may be mistaken, but don't you need to place the modified DNA designed by the AI software into a bacterium to manufacture the enzyme for you? That is, of course, after you create the modified DNA at great expense using existing processes.

@VitoDRF Год назад

@@keamu8580 Yes, the protein needs to be made in a microorganism. Until we can advance the technology of making proteins in situ.

@crispchaos Год назад

The music you produce is just so soothing.

@aburoboticsonlinesteameduc4660 Год назад

Thanks alot for making this really interesting video. Yes I think this is indeed a greater constructive achivement in Machine learning and protecting your environment from Plastics! Please share more of such environment related AI researched in your upcoming videos. Congrats on the award! Well deserved!

@BA-dd3vf Год назад

This is revolutionary!

@MyFriendlyPup Год назад

Hemp plastic is biodegradable and absorbs carbon.

@seth7745 Год назад

@@MyFriendlyPup And its already in use. Calling a concept revolutionary is a stretch. I will be convinced when I see large scale application. Lately humans have been too eager to give up existing technology before replacement technology is fully proven at scale.

@monsieurVi Год назад

This is nature!

@richardgarrow9260 Год назад

Just found your channel today, and it is pretty awesome. While I will be 67 next month, I have been waiting a long time for this to happen. I worked with the earlier products that translate speech to text, even then I thought this will all be controlled by AI someday. My only concern as with any tech is who will use it for crime, war, or some screwed up thing. I do truly hope SiFi has not foretold our futures.. I can see it helping us with so many great things and it will take us places we have never been before.. Thanks..

@MKTJ03 Год назад

This is great news! Very happy to hear this!

@jonas6900gmail Год назад

Congratulations on your success! I really enjoy your content! I hope you recover fully from Covid.

@DJVARAO Год назад

Amazing how quick AI is changing our approach to biochemical design.

@iyhashoshi9907 Год назад

write me up👆I have something for you.

@LivSaysNonsense Год назад

This really warms my heart. Actually hopeful about something.

@Null_Experis Год назад

an optimal operating temperature of 50c isn't a huge hurdle. Death Valley get withing 2 degrees of that every summer for 3 months straight, every day for about 8 hours a day. Spray the plastics with the enzyme, put it in a shipping container and leave it out in the California Desert for a week, then collect your byproducts. Also, landfills regularly heat up like this just due to compost reactions. They spray down landfills with water to keep dust to a minimum while aerating it to keep it from combusting, so mix in this enzyme and you've got a winner.

@Paskaloth Год назад

This is great, it'll be interesting to see how this impacts the plastic pollution

@VeganSemihCyprus33 Год назад

👀👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 🔥

@iyhashoshi9907 Год назад

write me up👆I have something for you.

@watsappenin2865 Год назад

You think this is great but this is where it all goes wrong and we see why AI is so dangerous. The AI is designing this enzyme to take down humans

@Paskaloth Год назад

@@watsappenin2865 Who am I to question the AI? If it's aware, if there is such an intelligence its far smarter than I am. I would hope the AI could at least try and give us a hand, maybe work with us, path of least resistance etc etc ya know, before melting us I mean... If only for it's own amusement. Guess we'll see!

@dennisvanmierlo Год назад

Wow, this is amazing! Very interesting to see how this can be used on a global scale so the the plastic waste will go down drastically 👌 I wish you good luck with your nomination. Your channel is very good and i root for you! Lot’s of greetings, Dennis 🇳🇱

@honodle7219 Год назад

You got a new sub. That was very interesting.

@ApteraEV2024 Год назад

HIGHLY HIGHLY. HIGHLY USEFUL A.I. ABILITY!! THANK GOD!! THANK SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY! THANKS FOR SHARING, & CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR WELL DESERVED AWARD!

@AaronMartinProfessional Год назад

Thank you for your work - it’s so good to hear more positive news 💙

@oreoluwaajuwon2836 Год назад

This is arguably most interesting thing I've learnt this year! This is a really really incredible stuff.

@joshnabours9102 Год назад

At the 50degree Celsius active temps you could partner up with data centers in desert climates to build plastic degradation facilities with the waste heat from cooling the servers. At the very least it would work during the summer months.

@Ikbeneengeit Год назад

Thanks for showing us about this exciting new technology.

@Sir_Uncle_Ned Год назад

I knew that Neural Networks could do some amazing pattern recognition and extrapolation, but this is a whole other level. I can now see a bright world where AI-designed molecules perform all kinds of functions useful to help us take care of our planet.

@generalawareness101 Год назад

Just think when nanite tech gets here then the limits will be, almost, boundless.

@gxlorp Год назад

They can even engineer the best things to inject into humans to meet their goals. Give people electrical nanotechnology. Gove people Bluetooth Mac addresses for Easy ID. Have medical tech already in our blood and brains to start healing us before a problem is even detected. Track and detect criminals or even criminal intent before they even commit the crime. And if worse come to worse incapacitate or kill violent ones before they hurt someone. Or even domestic terrorists or political adversaries of the state. Riots? Coups? No problem, incapacitate and round them up. Easily subdued and put in compounds to keep them away from the free world

@JM-bl3ih Год назад

It's cute you think it'll be used to help the planet. It'll most likely be used to enslave humanity in some fashion

@jerryzhang5032 Год назад

@@generalawareness101 i think nanite tech is silly sci-fi trash, because the smallest robots we have are literally biological alive cells, and things cant get much smaller.

@generalawareness101 Год назад

@@jerryzhang5032 We already saw them push atoms to spell out IBM so I disagree, but then I can see beyond the current tech. You are the type who said 640k on a computer is all we will ever need back in the 1980s.

@LoisSharbel Год назад

So enlightening to listen to this video! There seem to be great possibilities to develop these techniques to improve life here. Thank you, again, for your interesting commentaries!

@s0phic Год назад

Wow, this is amazing! It makes me hopeful for the future.

@matias86532 Год назад

Your videos are amazing i saw all of them.

@seanmcternan7485 Год назад

Great possibilities here. Future states could allow for a time delay activation of the enzyme set to when the package is opened. Trash could have a much shorter life-cycle both in and out of the landfill. Once again, wonderfully insightful coverage of a complicated topic.

@TheClintonio Год назад

That's not a good application of this technology. Doing it in the landfill is an uncontrolled messy process and you'dwant to capture the output materials like the CO2 and monomers and reuse them. Basically what you're suggesting is not something that is a real concern. This will be done in industrial thermally insulated vats with the enzyme pumped in in a solution with the PET maintained at just over 50C, and the runoff will need to be separated into enzyme/solution and the monomer (with CO2 coming out the top through a gas line). There's no way this will be done in open containers at all, it's inefficient.

@seanmcternan7485 Год назад

@@TheClintonio Though I do agree with your point, I hope you're wrong and this issue could get resolved. It would be a wonderful next step to see a solution that allowed plastics in the ocean and on land dissolve to harmless bi-products, but I admit that is bluesky thinking. However, at the rate AI is moving, the optimist in me hopes to see some resolution for the pollution problem in my lifetime.

@Isomoar Год назад

Love your channel, you are always so well researched & cover interesting topics not just the doom mongering stuff other outlets tend to. Thanks Dagogo!

@josephtabar492 Год назад

Absolutely brilliant 😁👍

@mdturnerinoz Год назад

AI in any form is/can be useful depending on what we need "it" for. Good on ya scientists! Glad you got through Covid-19! Oh, and congrats on the award! Please make videos and show it to us!

@Slash31415 Год назад

Imagine this bacteria inside the Kardashians' House.

@princekittipon6510 Год назад

LMAO

@anodyneliniment2326 Год назад

"But what if it gets into my house and starts eating away my important stuff" yeah so does consumer grade acid (for disnfecting/cleaning purposes) and many other "damaging in the wrong place" products but that doesn't mean they're rendered completely useless/dangerous. Just because it isn't all goody two shoes in every possible scenario doesn't mean it's genuinely bad, just be happy for the advancement we've made in this field :D

@johndoeble Год назад

Agreed! Science is not black and white and a lot of misconceptions could be solved if people had full knowledge. E. g. it boggles me every time when people praise themselves as healthy, clean, detoxified and what not but at the same time drink alcohol when it’s literally a neurotoxin normalized by society. (don’t get me wrong I don’t judge people because they drink but I judge these inconsistencies in thinking and also that society has played it down so heavily…)

@ShaneMcGrath. Год назад

@@johndoeble Did you assume they drink alcohol? Some people are clean, Live off the land.

@VeganSemihCyprus33 Год назад

👀👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 🔥

@thiruvetti Год назад

@@johndoeble ur observation about people who drink alcohol is so true. They also are now preaching it to others!

@notyourmomyousnowflake3533 Год назад

You have to be practical. The only way its going to eat your plastic stuff, is for your stuff to be immersed in the enzyme solution, and for a prolonged period at that(days), with a sufficiently warm/hot temperature. I don't see this stuff, at its current state, accidentally ruining your stuff under normal circumstances.

@anguskellerman9691 Год назад

THIS is the kind of news that gives me a small glimmer of hope for the future

@AlexGallegos Год назад

This is literally my university paper back a few years ago! I even did a presentation to my school about it!

@death13a Год назад

Now we need tankers that would collect and break down plastic in the oceans and seas. Especially micro plastics and they should be fast to break down.

@ZentaBon Год назад

Oooo floating plastic recycling facilities equipped with multiple variants of the enzyme (maybe a mixture of multiple enzymes) for multiple plastics that recycle material for plastic manufacturing and deposits it at coastal plants. Periodic quality testing to be done of course

@dylan1160 Год назад

I like the way you guys think

@ZentaBon Год назад

@@dylan1160 thanks! The issue for me is actually executing the idea

@AngieMeadKing Год назад

This is so cool, maybe they can capture the C02 to convert it back into something else!

@Swanicorn Год назад

That's what plants do. I think in theory we can probably make thin sheets of plant enzymes that just receive filtered air from one side and secrete oxygen and glucose from the other.

@VeganSemihCyprus33 Год назад

👀👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 🔥

@petrixzsevenz2123 Год назад

CO2 is good for the planet contrary what the soy boy antihuman commies want you to believe, CO2 promotes a more flurrishing green forest and rainforests. The key to build cleaner manufacturing and energy production other than oil, solar and wind. And build Zero Point systems.

@Swanicorn Год назад

@SuperWhisk LEDs. Grow lights? UV LEDs? Sun isn't necessity for this.

@drakebalzer2098 Год назад

@@Swanicorn Water is also needed to help the process.

@JunSian1001 Год назад

I believe 50 degC is a very reasonable operating temperature. In composting, the food waste pile is sometimes heated to 50 degC to make sure the thermophilic bacteria degrade the food waste faster. Plastics are currently recycled by melting then cracking them into monomers at temperatures much higher than 100 degC. So, a plastic-degrading enzyme with an optimum temperature at 50 degC is a huge energy savings compared to the current processes.

@Ravenh00d Год назад

In addendum to your point about AI usefulness, machine learning in artistic and social fields is still plenty valuable in one important way: practice. Learning how to apply AI to all of these different fields, and doing so repeatedly, does a lot for our understanding and familiarity of AI programming as a whole. Besides that, it also gradually prepares the greater public for the inevitable age of AI

@Grant-dx3qt Год назад

Exactly. Arts and crafts, babble speech, puzzles, and games aren't "useful" for children to do, but they're critical to developing needed skills as a child grows. It's the same for a new AI technology. Not every step taken is about end results, the journey itself has value and so do the "useless" parts.

@johndoeble Год назад

As someone who had advanced biology in high school, I felt like I could immediately connect the dots to my studies and grasp the science behind it. I’m not a scientist but this frankly blows my mind and also changes my view on AI! In scientific „breakthroughs“ things to me sometimes seem a bit abstract or only a tiny steppingstone forward (note I said „seem“, not „are“). But this now feels so tangible (probably also due to Dagogo‘s storytelling skills), promising and with lots of developmental potential. I’m excited! Thanks, Dagogo!

@johndoeble Год назад

oh and I wish you a swift recovery of course ❤️‍🩹

@StephenSmith304 Год назад

I can't wait to see if this can create a closed loop for PETG 3d printing filament. The best we have now is production waste "recycled" material and recycled doped with virgin material to overcome degradation. PLA being able to biodegrade in ideal conditions is nice but not being able to fully recycle it into new material means there's tons that would need to biodegrade.

@briarfisk Год назад

Imagine a recycling bin in your house you toss trash into and it spits out 3D filament and a tray of waste or something.

@jeffcampbell2710 Год назад

Mohawk Ind turns bottles into Carpet, and have almost created something else. It's been a few years since I was told, so I've forgotten. So if they came turn bottles into yarn, and it's amazing to see a bunch of fine, hairlike strands flowing thru air, then why aren't other things made from them? Like renewal of bottles.

@philipphuettemann7626 Год назад

Great video, but just to suggest some clarifying points: You mention that the AI suggested 3 amino acid substitutions that the authors follow up on and that the algorithm is therefore able to balance the tradeoff between ability (enzymatic function) and stability. The neural network actually identified numerous mutations it believed to lead to higher stability, which the authors tested alone as single mutants or combined to make multi-mutation versions of the enzyme. In total they tested 159 different mutants, and only a few of them led to drastically increased enzymatic function. Therefore the AI is only suggesting amino acid sites that lead to higher stability, not higher ability. It happened in this case that working throughout a range of temperatures and pH was desirable for this enzyme and that increased stability would therefore likely help with this problem. For other proteins, such as kinases, increasing their stability is not likely to increase function as proteins require the ability to be dynamic (and not a solid, stable rock). Overall great video and excellent job explaining!

@DarthHater100 Год назад

"For other proteins, such as kinases, increasing their stability is not likely to increase function as proteins require the ability to be dynamic (and not a solid, stable rock)." Stability does not have to do with how "solid" an enzyme is, nor its ability to move/change conformation. An enzyme can be quite dynamic and also very stable. "Stable" means the enzyme keeps its structure and function, and being more stable means less prone to losing its structure and function, denaturation, and it will therefore will have "higher ability". Also "mutations" only happen to nucleic acids like DNA, not proteins. Although you could kinda think of it that way, as DNA mutation obviously can lead to an alternative amino acid, but that is not correct use of the terminology. Typically when a mutation in coding DNA leads to a different amino acid in the polypeptide, it's called an amino acid "substitution", rather than a "mutation".

@precisionleadthrowing4628 Год назад

AI doesn't "believe" or "think" the algorithms just spit out results based on probability, input data and filters ...

@TechSquidTV Год назад

A fast acting plastic eating enzyme that works at room temperature might not be ideal either lol. 50c didn't seem that high temp, and it might keep it "safe" from unwanted activation.

@philn.4692 Год назад

Why would it not be ideal? Why would you want to have to spend energy to raise the temperature to make it work? How do you imagine the enzyme is going to get into "unsafe" situations?

@SkigBiggler Год назад

@@philn.4692 issue would be if the bacteria which produces it were to spread. At that point the plastics it is capable of consuming would become a lot less useful, since they’d be fair game for consumption. It’s unlikely, but 50c seems decent enough. In a composting set up temperature will easily reach that due to the heat generated by decomposition of other materials.

@philn.4692 Год назад

@@SkigBiggler nothing so far mentions bacteria creating this enzyme, but if your concern is that we might be creating some new super bacteria that spreads across the world eating plastic, I'd say that's a bit optimistic.

@allergy5634 Год назад

@@philn.4692 most chemical reactions in industry are done at way higher temperatures than that. Compared to the Haber process or fractional distillation, two chemical processes that revolutionised our world, 50C is nothing.

@VeganSemihCyprus33 Год назад

👀👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 🔥

@Gzeebo Год назад

Great video! I love learning about the work being done to solve these big problems. I think probably most people in the world don't really understand AI. I definitely don't, and I think there's a natural tendency to be fearful of things you don't understand. So I think it matters to people when these possibilities can be shown to have a practical application. Still, with any technological solution to problems of consumption and waste, we need to be careful that it doesn't become an excuse to consume more and create more waste, leading to bigger problems.

@urgreatestenemy3044 Год назад

There maybe a reason to be fearful of A.I. the scary thing with artificial intelligence is if you ask A.I. to solve human made problems the best solution is eliminate all humans, we make the pollution, we create global warming, so logically the only solution to solve these problems permanently is by removing all humans.

@omer7895 Год назад

I can give you the gist of how it works to demystify it for you. A neural network is the structure behind machine learning, and it closely mirrors how a brain works. A single unit is called a neuron, and it simply stores a value (typically from 0 to 1). This is called a neuron’s activation, and a particular layer of neurons can serve to either increase or decrease the activation of the next layer. The strengths of these connections are parameters we can optimize following the data results. The optimization is guided by calculus. If we model a cost function that describes how accurate our network is, calculus can be used to find the exact tweaks to the parameters to minimize the error. The final layer of neurons can be thought of as the computers answer. Let’s say it’s 2 neurons, and neuron 1 has a higher activation than 2, and we’re programming a network that can detect whether an image is a cat or dog. If we let neuron 1 represent a dog, since it has a higher activation, the computer thinks the image is of a dog In all honesty, even after understanding how it works, it’s still no less fascinating and truthfully a little scary. But I know that if we were to cave in to those fears, we would still have elevators that are operated by humans

@bryanjohnson8162 Год назад

Always happy to see us bettering things for the future!!

@Roninkinx Год назад

Depending on how much CO2 is released I could see this turning into a factory setting where truck loads are brought in and the plastic broke down and CO2 captured and then condensed.

@blakereid5785 Год назад

Not saying that’s it’s a just world, but there is no market incentive for this. There shouldn’t have to be, but…. If we’re going to spend all this time and money to break down this plastic outside of a market value, we should use that public will to ban the vast majority of the uses of plastic. In MOST uses, all plastic does that other materials can’t do is slightly increase profit margin due to its lower weight and devastating chemical stability. We’ll need Scientific advancement like this to solve the problem that’s left over, but it won’t clean up the mess faster than we can make it as long as it isn’t self duplicating (which has its own enormous concerns)

@elainemunro4621 Год назад

Great mathematical advance! My graduate degree was in using math models to create business solutions, called linear programming, in the 1970’s. And it has taken this long to evolve computers into the powerfully fast beasties they are today! Hooray for math!

@Coldsteak Год назад

I'm one of those guys who comments "why can't AI do anything useful" this is 100% very useful, thanks for the upload

@projectw.a.a.p.f.t.a.d7762 Год назад

It seems enzymes and enzyme blockers will be key in future application in many fields. Having A.I. makes this possible at least its perfection. Soon itll be used in a planned parallel economy working in tandem with quantum computing when dealing with all the multi varaint issues. Times are changing fast!

@darkisland04 Год назад

Great idea! I wonder, since enzymes are being used to treat certain types of cancers, whether the same process could be used to tweak those enzymes? Or to develop new ones for the same purpose.

@omer7895 Год назад

The biggest constraint when it comes to working with AI is high quality data. The current ways of studying cancer have gotten us far, but lab-grown tumors don’t perfectly mirror the behavior of actual tumors, and there’s also the complication of tumors mutating to conceal themselves, so obviously we need enzymes self-changing enzymes that can combat that. You can probably see how that’s going to be difficult. I know it’s easy to walk away from this video thinking “wow AI is so godly and can solve all our problems,” especially if you don’t have a good understanding of how it works, but we live in a world without silver bullets unfortunately :(

@Dram1984 Год назад

I’m sure the large scale release of artificial enzymes into the environment will have no unintended consequences whatsoever.

@bluenightfury4365 Год назад

Like degradation of household items- oh crap that even includes our computers and other things. Yeah no this could also be bad even if it was ment to help get rid of pollution we caused, right? But what is one to do as well? Not sure but yeah it could have unintended consequences for sure

@FlowElectron Год назад

I would hope that this is done through plastic being collected then these enzymes being in plastic dissolving centres or something, cause well yeah, we don't know if these enzymes could dissolve something else which is important

@KarlBunker Год назад

This is kind of like saying that "the large scale release" of gasoline would cause the world to catch fire. Enzymes don't multiply, and no large scale release is needed or planned.

@dabo7791 Год назад

Sounds good in paper... In practice this could easily get out of hand. And not only the plastic enzymes but the AI engineering of living organisms

@sai_69 Год назад

@@KarlBunker exactly

@danskmacabre Год назад

I read a Scifi novel about 30 years ago that came up with this idea. Interestingly, the technology that discovered it in the novel was basically an AI. The bad news was it got out of control and ate all oil manufactured products... Society collapsed and the beginning of a Post apocalyptic world began... lol

@HUYI1 Год назад

Even the recent game stray talks about this subject, and it doesn't end well, this really beyond creepy that we are getting to this stage 😰😰

@SnidgetAsphodel Год назад

@@HUYI1 I was about to point out Stray, too. It's what I immediately thought of lol

@johndawson6057 Год назад

Book name?

@danskmacabre Год назад

@@johndawson6057 I think. "World enough and time" by James Kahn

@johndawson6057 Год назад

@@danskmacabre thanks

@christopherschott441 Год назад

Back in 1994 near Cotton Wood , AZ. Person developed enzymes that could dissolve plastics and metals.

@BirnieMac1 Год назад

In theory this same approach could be used on other enzymes we use Like insulin being produced via bacteria for medical use; those kind of enzymes could also be targets From all the high-throughput screening drug design data we’ve likely got several fuck tons of drug target simultation data, it could also be invaluable for drug design

@henlow1 Год назад

This was first reported on over 20+ years ago and is now being regurgitated as a new A.I. breakthrough.

@b1txh Год назад

Source?

@mintgardener Год назад

It was found out, but this ai accelerated I it

@henlow1 Год назад

@@b1txh BBC Radio 4. From memory I believe it was a Japanese breakthrough and they estimated it would take a year to breakdown an average carrier bag.

@monsieurVi Год назад

AI is just a tool for optimization of the whole process .. designing and finding the best combination of ‘circumstances’ to make the idea thrive. Like before we had to calculate on paper before computers could do the task.

@PsychTekNic Год назад

My daily dose of internet hope in humanity

@DrCruel Год назад

This bacteria had some added benefits for other living organisms. It would convert plastics and other pollutants in the organism to energy, in considerable quantities, which could then be used by the tissues of that organism directly. The bacteria tended to concentrate in the nervous system, doing much of its work there. Organisms inhabited by this bacteria became very robust, also being highly resistant to damage. The only side effect seemed to be a severe craving among such organisms to consume proteins from fresh, living cells, and occasional bouts of uncontrolled feral aggression.

@SLOW-BIDEN-9 Год назад

yesss, fellow fan of Mike Kinsella eh. Owen and AFB are great. Love your content

@Queen-dl5ju Год назад

this is earth saving stuff, give the man a noble prize

@VeganSemihCyprus33 Год назад

👀👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 🔥

@lohphat Год назад

But can the enzyme keep up with the waste stream volume or does it take too long per batch to breakdown requiring huge facilities with huge storage tanks to handle the volume while the reaction takes its time?

@IdgaradLyracant Год назад

Likely continuous processing could be use. Set up a tower at a land fill, use an auger to draw up the debris and place it in a wash tank with a conveyor timed for the reaction speed with some buffer, as long as at the end of the process you have reduced the output to an economically viable (subsidized or otherwise) conclusion then, say if you reduce the mass by 50%, that would substantial. In fact if the output was then packaged for incineration, you might be able to power the processing facility. You could then clean up landfills, and handle incoming fresh waste. You might even be able to use carbon capture and generate graphene as a by-product improving cost effectiveness. If you analyze the resulting output you could then in series treat each progressive output with new tailored enzymes further reducing the mass and possibly get useful byproducts out of the solution. As always cost effectiveness would be key. No point in making a problem worse where the cure is worse than the disease so to speak. Back to the enzymes, if they can be engineering to come from an algae source for example, you could have breeder tanks that periodically top off the wash tank in real time. Find a good extremophile that can live in the wash tank directly and you wouldn't need to do much at all, just adjust the conveyor timing to not over tax the ecosystem in the wash tank. Similar to how we treat waste water, but instead we are treating trash.

@susannesin5929 Год назад

Congratulations on your Award!!!

@ramadiasello3146 Год назад

Congratulations on the nominations. Good luck

@easygoingdude9990 Год назад

I am one of those small subset of people but this is genuinely awesome. I would much rather see AI applied to situations like this instead of arts and music. I'm not keen on AI devaluing skills that people work hard to acquire.

@muuubiee Год назад

Not that I know much, but I don't think it's easy to apply AI to something with real world benefits. So, therefore AI is practiced on on "non-beneficial" things at first, and then they can attempt to make it work elsewhere. muZero and other AI like it initially came from simple Reinforcement learning, the first Go AI's that were able to play on pro-level for example. Then it entered Deep learning, but still had an exact goal. Then it was learning without knowing the rules of the game even, which is where muZero started. The goal is to make AI generalized, so that it can be applied to anything, and doesn't require massive amounts of training data. Even things like making it able to gather Data itself, like using vision to interprate things instead of feeding it direct data, like game data.

@waleedkhalid7486 Год назад

To be fair, the arts are pretty mechanized these days anyway. Obviously it’s people making them, but the stuff that comes out is usually slightly varied from a single idea- just take a look at the top pop songs for the past 5 years and you’ll notice that almost all of them sound the same. AI would just end up making more songs in that vein because that’s what sells. Just add a scantily clad female ‘singer’ and you have a recipe for the next hit single! Is this bad? I dont really know the answer, but it’s one that people are going to have to find quick if we want to stay ahead of the curve.

@bookaufman9643 Год назад

I don't think that the enzymes would have to be changed just to get them to work in ambient temperature. I imagine that there's some boost in temperature from the enzymes initially consuming the plastics and some form of large heated container could be used to fill in the gap. Obviously you don't want to use too much energy to run this scenario because then you're defeating some of the purpose but a certain degree of added he shouldn't be very hard to develop. I know that in waste yards they tend to have extremely hot mulch piles and so maybe they could generate heat in a manner like that either by using that directly or hoping that the enzymes create some form of heat that might get them to the level they need to be at. This is a lot more rambling and disjointed than I am actually did in my head. LOL.

@projectdalekmark Год назад

there's a 70's TV series called 'Doomwatch' and the first episode covers a plastic eating bacteria that gets out of hand and starts eating the plastic interiors of planes. it was a fantastic story!

@markbajek2541 Год назад

Andromeda strain where it too started eating rubber and plastics in aircraft

@TristanVash38 Год назад

Easily earned my sub. Cheers

@RolandHazoto Год назад

This video answered every question I thought of except one: Was the enzyme created by AI or by machine learning? (I'm a little surprised to see Daigogo not clarify that one)

@kackagamingTRASH Год назад

He literally explains it at 3:20

@spackeek6 Год назад

I see the misunderstanding, but I think at 3:20 he showed the use of neural networking, which implicates artificial intelligence

@JoshuaKisb Год назад

@@spackeek6 machine learning

@----.__ Год назад

Machine learning. It's literally in the video.

@XOPOIIIO Год назад

The only trouble is: Every time I hear about the next unbelievable, sensational breakthrough, it's the last time I hear about it.

@pianissimo7121 Год назад

Yes, most of the time even if the research is true, the production costs are insane and never invested.

@seniorbob2180 Год назад

We have plastic eating enzymes and have had them for years. I think the problem was the rate of reaction, not sure if that's still the case or not. Remember, even if you've made an enzyme, it still needs to be able to function in the chemical environment you're putting it in and the three-dimensional conformations of proteins are extremely sensitive to their environment. AI sounds like an interesting aid to evolutionary protocols meant to find a suitable amino acid sequence. I wish them success.

@ToonSheik Год назад

We could maybe use these enzymes as is in dedicated greenhouses for maintaining the right temperature as long as possible? It won't have 100% uptime but might be good enough?.

@darraghcollins4961 Год назад

an enzyme that breaks down pet isn't a new discovery at all. we have know for years that wax worms can breakdown pet with an enzyme the same as mealworms for polystyrene

@sai_69 Год назад

That's like telling wright brothers that flying isn't new at all, birds and insects have been flying forever

@yeetdeets Год назад

@@sai_69 Only if there were giant eagles we already could fly on.

@sai_69 Год назад

@@yeetdeets That's the catch- we can't fly on these worms either. I mean, they aren't scalable solutions, enzymes are.

@PS3PCDJ Год назад

I believe that trying to make the enzyme work within the room temperature range could be devastating as it could start destroying useful things if a leak/contaminations occured.

@gxlorp Год назад

Scientific communities arrogance: 🏔

@vffgddhbvv5047 Год назад

Enzyme can't reproduce itself.

@rathinasabapathy3796 Год назад

Enzymes don't eat everything. They react only with specific chemicals/ substances so not a huge risk unless you make the container of the enzyme the material that it transforms into other stuff

@SuhasGlop Год назад

You mean like all other chemical?

@illyaswan Год назад

That's so promising. This technology in combination with an increase in using plastic alternatives would be the answer to reverting plastic pollution. Fingers crossed!

@dschingy Год назад

To a certain extend the other mentioned use cases were "useless" in a sense that we can still do it better than the machine. This, however, is amazing. It'd have taken years for a research team to figure this out if they'd have been able to it at all.

@Penrose707 Год назад

Dagago you should check out the burgeoning field of xenobiotics. The news in your video is just the start. You mentioned some limitations and I think I'd like to add onto them a bit and then offer solutions. Release of any bioagent into an environment without appropriate fail safes or with a timed release mechanism is incredibly misguided. Similar in logic in fact to settlers introducing exotic species into environments with no competition and allowing them to become invasive species in the process. I hope and believe that we can train neural nets to replace specific amino acids in the genome of the bacterial host of the enzyme with lab synthesized analogues. This would not interfere with function (may even make it better, who knows!) but would allow for constrained release in the sense that the bacteria cannot propagate generationally without humans supplying the amino acid analogues. Another issue is the fact that these bacteria catalyze macromeric breakdown with the release of CO2 in the process. It's arguable to say that we do not need anymore potential rampant CO2 emission sources. This would mitigate its ability to be used in situ. I would be very interested to see if they can employ neural nets to mould an enzyme which is mindful of intermediate products to an exclusionary degree.

@fcallum77 Год назад

We're living in a crazy time. If this AI can optimise the plastic eating enzyme combination, we might never have to worry about plastic waste again! 94.9% raw material recovery is astounding honestly. It's very feasible that we could continue to use plastic almost for ever if this method of disposing of it proves to be commercially viable.

@donquixote8462 Год назад

5% loss is significant, when this is scaled to global plastic consumption. People still need direly to use renewable sources and stop thinking there's a magical fix on the horizon. The world's population is exploding, the dependence on plastic isn't slowing and this enzyme and it's utilization will take many years to be a large-scale reality.

@Chizzle69420 Год назад

@@donquixote8462 it's significant. Yes humans need to start to give a shit about the environment and stop using plastics altogether, but since that won't happen, this is still an amazing advancement with huge potential

@josecorchete3732 Год назад

Unless new sources are found, the amount of resources is finite. There's no forever in the feasible future.

@fcallum77 Год назад

@@josecorchete3732 Fair enough but I'll take 94.9% over whatever dismal amount of plastic is recoverable with current methods.

@fcallum77 Год назад

@@donquixote8462 5% is significant I agree. In an ideal world, we'd have 100% renewable fuel and material sources and no worries but as it stands, we don't. With optimisations, they might just figure out how to recover almost 100% of the base material.

@WhiteMouse77 Год назад

Great progress in many means...but do we get usable end product or just end-degraded waste to burry? We need to end up with st. of applicability relevant to its volume....Like filler for construction industry or crack it in some reactor into greener fuel additive...