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#299 – Demis Hassabis: DeepMind

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Open Source Alpha Fold

AI is the right tool for that. You have to, you have to start at the basic building blocks and use AI to run the simulation for all those building blocks. We think there's roughly 500,000 biologists in the world, professional biologists have used it to look at their proteins of interest. And pretty much every farmer company, every drug company executive I've spoken to has said that their teams are using alpha fold to accelerate whatever drugs they're trying to discover. It's been so gratifying to see what people have done within just one year, which is a short amount of time in science. The best way to accelerate drug discovery and also fundamental research would be to give all that data

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