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DeepMind's Demis Hassabis on the future of AI

The TED Interview

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The Protein Folding Problem

Alperfold is our system to solve t what's been called the protein folding problem. It can predict and take an amino acid sequence and give you back the three lee structure in a matter of seconds. And that is the threshold which it then becomes useful for biologists and chemists. That was always the magic threshold that had to be reached so that chemists and biologists and lie scientists could rely on it for down stream toss like drug discovery and other things, without necessarily having to do the painstaking experiments.

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