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Nov 30, 2020

AI Solves 50-Year-Old Biology ‘Grand Challenge’ Decades Before Experts Predicted

Posted by in categories: biological, robotics/AI

A long-standing and incredibly complex scientific problem concerning the structure and behaviour of proteins has been effectively solved by a new artificial intelligence (AI) system, scientists report.

DeepMind, the UK-based AI company, has wowed us for years with its parade of ever-advancing neural networks that continually trounce humans at complex games such as chess and Go.

All those incremental advancements were about much more than mastering recreational diversions, however.

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