How artificial intelligence cracked biology's biggest problem - The Economist

Our podcast on science and technology. This week, we examine how DeepMind’s AI system predicted the structure of virtually every known protein—and what the breakthrough means for both science and machine learning

DEEPMINDS artificial-intelligence system AlphaFold has predicted the three-dimensional shape of almost all known proteins. The companys boss Demis Hassabis tells us how the AI was able to solve what … [+630 chars]

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