Key insights that will help you make the most of AI

It's easy to get sucked into the hype around artificial intelligence (AI), but just as easy to get duped into thinking it's all hype. The truth is somewhere in the middle. Or, as tech luminary Mike Olson suggested, "The breathless attention paid to AGI and self-driving cars and whatnot blinds [us] to the value of narrowly-focused AI applications." By "narrowly focused" he was referring to the DeepMind announcement that it had released the "predicted structures for nearly all catalogued proteins known to science". This advance dramatically opens access to protein structures, thereby accelerating scientific discovery in fields as diverse as medicine and climate change. But the AI used is narrow in the sense that it isn't some sentient machine, thinking through protein structures.