Saturday, January 17, 2026

Rabies And AI -- January 17, 2026

Locator: 49738RABIES.  

If you think Jensen Huang's racks are efficient (see this post from Beth) and compare it to the rabies virus. 

To put this in perspective:

  • human: 25,000 protein-coding genes 
  • E. coli bacterium: 4,500 genes
  • chickenpox virus: 72 genes
  • measles virus: eight genes.
  • rabies virus: five genes. 

AI prompt:

Can AI research learn anything from the rabies virus? Of all viruses causing severe human disease, only rabies is so highly attuned to nerve cells, similar to AI using "neutonal-like systems to transmit information. Amazingly, the rabies virus has only five genes. It reminds me of Velcro and the Venus fly trap. 

Google Gemini reply




So, how would ChatGPT handle that question? I prefer ChatGPT's reply. It is such a long reply, I had to make it a stand-alone post; link here.