How AI/ML Steered Major Innovations in Medicine & Healthcare In 2020

Of all the innovations in artificial intelligence and machine learning space this year, the most significant ones have turned out to be in the healthcare and medicine field, the credit of which could be given to the unprecedented pandemic situation around the world. In this article, we discover some of the major breakthroughs in 2020. Termed as a groundbreaking innovation, DeepMind's AI system AlphaFold was developed to present a solution to the 50-year-old grand challenge of determining the protein structure, also referred to as'protein folding problem'. This system demonstrated high levels of accuracy in predicting the 3D structure of a protein. By bringing about significant progress over the core challenges in biology, this system paves the way for disease understanding and drug discovery, even in case of COVID-19, among other fields.