TED Tech How AI is saving billions of years of human research time | Max Jaderberg
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Mar 7, 2025 
Max Jaderberg, Chief AI Officer at Isomorphic Labs and former research scientist at DeepMind, dives into the groundbreaking role of AI in scientific discovery. He reveals how AI compresses years of research into mere seconds, particularly in protein folding and drug discovery. Jaderberg discusses the incredible efficiency of models like AlphaFold 3, which simulate real-world experiments at lightning speed, freeing researchers to tackle complex challenges. His insights promise a future where AI transforms medicine, drug design, and research as we know it.
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Protein Folding Revolution
- Max Jaderberg's friend spent his PhD studying protein structures experimentally.
- AlphaFold, an AI model, now accomplishes this work in seconds, saving vast research time.
Continued AI Breakthroughs
- AI models like AlphaFold are not one-time events.
- We will see more breakthroughs in understanding complex science with AI due to new architectures and increasing compute power.
AI Analogs
- AI analogs recreate real-world elements using neural networks.
- This allows virtual experimentation at scale, leading to new knowledge creation.