The co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, Demis Hassabis was awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with his DeepMind colleague Dr John Jumper "for protein structure prediction". This was in recognition of the major advances made possible by their Artificial Intelligence model AlphaFold2, with whose help they have been able to predict the structure of virtually all the 200 million proteins that researchers have identified.
In this lecture, he describes his journey from a child chess prodigy whose interest in computers was sparked by using them to improve his chess game, to his time at Cambridge University to his Artificial Intelligence career today. And he talks about how the Artificial Intelligence tools Google DeepMind is developing have the capacity to greatly speed up discoveries in areas of science from health to the environment, and more.
Artificial Intelligence is still far away from being self aware, we may see that in about a decade or two, but it is alrea being very useful in several human activity like producing stuff and analizing data, and that make it good for accelerating scientific discovery. How far this will go remains to be seen or discovere, but for the moment let's watch together this lecture.
