AI Platform Quickly Spots Dangerous New Recreational Drugs
- New online platform NPS-MS uses AI to predict chemical makeup of novel psychoactive substances
- Can identify new dangerous drugs not yet illegal to stay ahead of manufacturers
- Trained on dataset of over 1,800 spectrographs to cross-reference 624 known substances
- Successfully identified PCP variant without needing expensive reference data
- Could reduce workload for forensic labs to identify unknown substances