> They literally solved protein folding with AI
AlphaFold deserves some hype but this is a tremendous overstatement.
Re:A.I. Has Become a Technology of Faith
by AndrewKemendo on Friday July 12, 2024 @09:33PM
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It’s not an overstatement:
AlphaFold, developed by the Alphabet-owned company DeepMind, predicted the 3-D structures of almost every known protein—about 200 million in all
I can also make a prediction for every single known protein, it's trivial to do. My own predictions would be uniformly wrong. The question is how accurate AlphaFold's predictions are - of course, this question was almost totally avoided by the news reports and DeepMind press releases. It is accurate enough (and accurate often enough) to be a useful tool but by no means accurate enough to say they "literally solved protein folding."
Ha! That’s the hype there. They made predictions, like any other model out there. Their models are better but not close to what we get out of xray crystallography which is a painstaking process.
Protein folding is nowhere near a solved problem. A third of proteins don’t have high enough accuracy.
https://occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2020/12/02/no-deepmind-h...
I could sit here and list hundreds of places that AI - specifically deep learning is applied in your daily life to improve it
Yall seem to also forget about Deepmind every time
https://deepmind.google/technologies/alphafold/
They literally solved protein folding with AI and won the Lasker prize
Similarly with AlphaGo etc…
AI is the most frustrating discipline to be in (and also most inspiring imo) because it’s never enough and anything that works, ceases to be AI
AI has always been a technology of faith if you recognize that the lived definition is “any technology that has been conceived but not widely implemented”