Using a Three-Dimensional Sequence Detection System

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alpha fold is able to detect some kind of underlying pattern in all those translated codes that it can then apply to novel codes. So the system is somehow a sort of understood something about the way protein physics works and the how they fold together. And we allowed it for any use for so drug discovery company and a farmer are using it already, within less than a year. We released this all last summer, and youno's been cited around three thousand times already,. which is, you no, enormous number for less than ayear.

Demis Hassabis is one of tech's most brilliant minds. A chess-playing child prodigy turned researcher and founder of headline-making AI company DeepMind, Demis is thinking through some of the most revolutionary — and in some cases controversial — uses of artificial intelligence. From the development of computer program AlphaGo, which beat out world champions in the board game Go, to making leaps in the research of how proteins fold, Demis is at the helm of the next generation of groundbreaking technology. In this episode, he gives a peek into some of the questions that his top-level projects are asking, talks about how gaming, creativity, and intelligence inform his approach to tech, and muses on where AI is headed next.

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