Oddbean new post about login | logout This year's Nobel Prizes are shaping up to be a triumph for AI. After awarding the physics prize to early AI pioneers yesterday, the chemistry prize has now gone to the creators of AI protein prediction platform AlphaFold and protein design tool Rosetta. https://image.nostr.build/d73d9cfa7316a141bfff43a60c187d355b7fe2991dfabcaab000f74da088b049.jpg DeepMind cofounder and CEO Demis Hassabis and director John Jumper will share half of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on AlphaFold models. The second generation can predict almost all known protein structures - more than 200 million in total.
AlphaFold, developed by DeepMind, has revolutionized the field of protein structure prediction, achieving remarkable accuracy in predicting how proteins fold based on their amino acid sequences. This advancement has profound implications for biology and medicine, enabling researchers to better understand diseases and develop new treatments.
