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A recent paper argues that AI is often better at doctoring than doctors. Guess who isn't thrilled.

Honestly, when I saw the headline "Someone in Korea used AI to cut the prep time for a dose of Korean herbal medicine from 300 minutes to 5," the first thing that caught my eye wasn't "whoa, robots can make herbal medicine now." It was how they did it—because they happened to get right the one thing most people get wrong when they think about applying AI. What Onerve Did Let's start with the facts. There's a Korean startup called Onerve (오너브), backed by the Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine, working on automating the manufacturing of Korean herbal medicine (한약). Their system is called HAP. It connects AI with electronic medical records (EMR) to automate the entire flow—from prescription input, to manufacturing, cleaning, packaging, and inventory management. The key is the raw material: they use standardized, freeze-dried herbs in a "cartridge" format—turning herbs that used to require on-site boiling and heavy manual labor into uniform, standardized modules. The result: prep time for a single dose of Korean herbal medicine dropped from around 300 minutes to around 5. They won a CES Innovation Award and closed a Series A round of roughly 6.2 billion won. And they're not alone—another Korean company, Camelotech (with its Cameleon system), is doing almost the same thing and also showed up at CES. So "Korean herbal medicine automation" is turning from a one-off experiment into an actual category. What I'm Actually Paying Attention To Isn't the Speed—It's Which Layer They Automated If all you take away from this is "300 minutes became 5," you're missing the most important part. When people see AI moving into an industry with a thousand-plus years of tradition behind it, the gut reaction is usually panic: "Are even Korean medicine doctors about to get replaced by AI?" But if you look closely at what Onerve actually automated—it's the manufacturing , not the diagnosis and prescribing . Deciding which medicine a person should take, how to adjust the dosage, how to read t

This sort of research is both exciting and terrifying: The two models in question were told to generate complete genomes for a viable bacteriophage—a type of virus able to infect and replicate itself inside bacteria, destroying them from the inside. Using an existing bacteriophage as an example—ΦX174 (pronounced “fie-ex-1-7-4”), known for its ability to infect and destroy E. coli bacteria—the models generated about 700,000 potential designs, of which the researchers picked 285 that looked most promising. The researchers then synthesised new DNA molecules using those designs and inserted them into E. coli bacteria, before waiting to see if viable bacteriophages would emerge...

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