{"id":94509,"date":"2019-08-07T01:22:28","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T08:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/inside-deepminds-epic-mission-to-solve-sciences-trickiest-problem"},"modified":"2019-08-07T01:22:28","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T08:22:28","slug":"inside-deepminds-epic-mission-to-solve-sciences-trickiest-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/inside-deepminds-epic-mission-to-solve-sciences-trickiest-problem","title":{"rendered":"Inside DeepMind\u2019s epic mission to solve science\u2019s trickiest problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/inside-deepminds-epic-mission-to-solve-sciences-trickiest-problem3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For DeepMind, the emergence of the new headquarters is symbolic of a new chapter for the company as it turns its research heft and compute power to try to understand, among other things, the building blocks of organic life. In so doing, the company hopes to make breakthroughs in medicine and other disciplines that will significantly impact progress in a number of fields. \u201cOur mission should be one of the most fascinating journeys in science,\u201d Hassabis says. \u201cWe\u2019re trying to build a cathedral to scientific endeavour.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>DeepMind\u2019s AI has beaten chess grandmasters and Go champions. But founder and CEO Demis Hassabis now has his sights set on bigger, real-world problems that could change lives. First up: protein folding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For DeepMind, the emergence of the new headquarters is symbolic of a new chapter for the company as it turns its research heft and compute power to try to understand, among other things, the building blocks of organic life. In so doing, the company hopes to make breakthroughs in medicine and other disciplines that will [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}