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.