Re:AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in...
by uoaei on Monday November 30, 2020 @01:44PM
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> the problem might be just too complex to grasp for the human brain
Maybe all at once, but having a self-consistent, unified theory is very important.
We can't understand the full brain, but we can understand the essential components and how they work together. This still constitutes "interpretable".
> The universal function approximation theorem doesn't also say how to find that network.
Correct, and irrelevant.
It looks like you'd like a grokable solution, but the problem might be just too complex to grasp for the human brain. "Solved" means they solved the protein puzzles on the official benchmark.
> but you would expect this with any suitable universal function approximator
Yeah, it's just that easy. Function approximator, engage! It took a team of Deep Mind researchers, two years and God knows how much compute. The universal function approximation theorem doesn't also say how to find that network.